def apply_markdown(text): """ Simple wrapper around :func:`markdown.markdown` to apply our :class:`CustomSetextHeaderProcessor`, and also set the base level of '#' style headers to <h2>. """ extensions = ['headerid(level=2)'] safe_mode = False, output_format = markdown.DEFAULT_OUTPUT_FORMAT md = markdown.Markdown(extensions=markdown.load_extensions(extensions), safe_mode=safe_mode, output_format=output_format) md.parser.blockprocessors['setextheader'] = CustomSetextHeaderProcessor(md.parser) return md.convert(text)