#!/usr/bin/env python # Example for using the shared library from python # Will work with either python 2 or python 3 # Requires cmark library to be installed from ctypes import * import sys import platform sysname = platform.system() if sysname == 'Darwin': libname = "libcmark.dylib" elif sysname == 'Windows': libname = "cmark.dll" else: libname = "libcmark.so" cmark = CDLL(libname) class cmark_mem(Structure): _fields_ = [("calloc", c_void_p), ("realloc", c_void_p), ("free", CFUNCTYPE(None, c_void_p))] get_alloc = cmark.cmark_get_default_mem_allocator get_alloc.restype = POINTER(cmark_mem) free_func = get_alloc().contents.free markdown = cmark.cmark_markdown_to_html markdown.restype = POINTER(c_char) markdown.argtypes = [c_char_p, c_size_t, c_int] opts = 0 # defaults def md2html(text): text = text.encode('utf-8') cstring = markdown(text, len(text), opts) result = string_at(cstring).decode('utf-8') free_func(cstring) return result sys.stdout.write(md2html(sys.stdin.read()))