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+#!/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 CDLL, c_char_p, c_long
+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)
+
+markdown = cmark.cmark_markdown_to_html
+markdown.restype = c_char_p
+markdown.argtypes = [c_char_p, c_long, c_long]
+
+opts = 0 # defaults
+
+def md2html(text):
+    if sys.version_info >= (3,0):
+        textbytes = text.encode('utf-8')
+        textlen = len(textbytes)
+        return markdown(textbytes, textlen, opts).decode('utf-8')
+    else:
+        textbytes = text
+        textlen = len(text)
+        return markdown(textbytes, textlen, opts)
+
+sys.stdout.write(md2html(sys.stdin.read()))