Getting Markdown to work with Django

In your view template put:

{% load markup %}

In your settings.py in the INSTALLED_APPS section, put:

'django.contrib.markup',

Install the Markdown library:

Download

Install on OS X:

Download markdown.py and setup.py and run:

python setup.py install

This is what happened on my system:

running install
running build
running build_py
creating build
creating build/lib
copying markdown.py -> build/lib
running install_lib
copying build/lib/markdown.py -> /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/site-packages
byte-compiling /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/site-packages/markdown.py to markdown.pyc

I wonder if that was the wrong way to do that. It looks like it modified my system version of Python, which means if the system updates it, it will be overwritten, right?

Install on DreamHost

Croft tells it like it is:

Basically, you just want to put the markdown.py file anywhere in your Python path. The simplest way is to just drop markdown.py in your django_projects directory. A slighty more complicated, but cleaner way (and actually the way I did it) is to create another directory for Python modules like this. I created a directory at the root of my Dreamhost account called “pylib”. You then need to add this directory to your python path by adjusting .bashrc and django.fcgi accordingly. If that makes sense, go for it. If not, just drop markdown.py in your django_projects — that’ll work fine.