Show HN: Extending Markdown with Pandoc+Panflute

I've been an extensive Pandoc user and wrote my thesis, website, etc. on Markdown. However, extending it was hard, as you either had to a) learn haskell, or b) learn the Pandoc internals in order to use pandocfilters [1].

To solve this, I wrote Panflute, a Python package that allows anyone to extend Pandoc's Markdown with a bit of Python code.

You can use it for simple stuff such as creating tables of contents, or more advanced stuff like CSV tables [2], output from external programs [3] (so you can fetch online data), and many things.

It's Pythonic, open source [4], and hopefully useful if you like Markdown :)

[1] https://github.com/jgm/pandocfilters

[2] http://scorreia.com/software/panflute/guide.html#yaml-code-b...

[3] http://scorreia.com/software/panflute/guide.html#calling-ext...

[4] https://github.com/sergiocorreia/panflute