Hello if anyone knows of a way to get python-markdown to behave in the way I'd like, or of an alternative way to do it, I'd love some help! My use case is I'm converting .md files made with Obsidian into html files. Obsidian has tags that are a pound sign followed by the tag (so like "#TagName"). When the tag is the first item on a line the pound sign is confused for a heading, even though there is no space after it.

Is there a way that I can avoid this so it only reads it as a heading if there is a space between the pound and the next word? I'm even considering some kind of find/replace logic so I can swap it out with like a link to a page that lists all the pages with that tag or something that gets run before the markdown to html conversion.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm so bad at regex, would you mind explaining what's going on with these ones?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

#\s+ is:

#: a literal #
\s: any whitespace character (space, tab etc)
+: the previous thing (here the whitespace), one or more times

In words: "a hash followed by at least one whitespace character"

#[^\s]. is:

#: a literal #
[^\s] : a negated character class. This matches anything other than the set of characters after the ^. \s has the same meaning as before, any whitespace character
. : matches any single character

In words: "a hash followed by any character other than a whitespace character, then any character".

https://regex101.com/ is really good for explaining regex