I'm working on a port for isso (https://github.com/posativ/isso) and one of its depencencies is misaka, a CFFI-based binding for Hoedown, a fast markdown processing library written in C. It features a fast HTML renderer and functionality to make custom renderers (e.g. man pages or LaTeX). Misaka comes with an embedded copy of hoedown (which is often how hoedown is used).
It's been a while since I've done a new port and my python skills are a bit rough. However, misaka passes all its tests so I have some confidence that it works. - todd #application/x-tar-gz /tmp/py-misaka.tgz; filename="py-misaka.tgz"