A command-line utility for pulling code blocks out of markdown files.

$ pip install mkcodes

# For traditional markdown code-block support.
$ pip install mkcodes[markdown]

$ mkcodes --help
Usage: mkcodes [OPTIONS] INPUTS...

Options:
  --output TEXT
  --github / --markdown  Github-flavored fence blocks or pure markdown.
  --safe / --unsafe      Allow code blocks without language hints.
  --package-python       Add __init__.py files to python dirs for test
                         discovery
  --default-lang TEXT    Assumed language for code blocks without language
                         hints.
  --help                 Show this message and exit.

Why would I want such a thing?

My purpose is testing.

You can easily enough doctest a markdown file with python -m doctest myfile.md, but I don't like typing or looking at a whole bunch of >>> and ...'s. Also there's no way that I know of to run linters against such code blocks.

Instead, I include (pytest) functional tests in my codeblocks, extract the code blocks with this script, and then run my test runner and linters against the output files.

Running Tests

./test