Text-to-HTML processing program

[Paul Rubin]

philh at invalid.email.address (phil hunt) writes:
> Does anyone know of a text-to-HTML processing program, ideally
> written in Python because I'll probably be wanting to make small
> modifications to it, which is simple and straightforward to use
> and which uses a simple markup language (something like Wikipedia
> markup would be ideal)?

I really wish Wikipedia, BBCodes, and all that would just use regular
HTML instead of continually inventing new "simplified" markup codes
for users to remember.  The one thing they do that's useful is convert
blank lines to <p>.