Trying to migrate from `markdown2`, lists without blank lines not working about markdown

[facelessuser]

Python Markdown normally requires blocks to have new lines before them. While occasionally, some blocks may work without this, it is generally recommended to use them before new blocks so they are not included in the block prior.

[nemecek-filip]

Do you think I could just add the new line with regex to the Markdown content before turning it into HTML with this package? Wouldn't this perhaps invite more problems?

[waylan]

Our behavior matches the behavior of the reference implementation. Therefore, it is markdown2 which has the behavior wrong. And for good reason. Consider this paragraph:

A sentence which makes mention of the year
2024. A year which has just gotten underway.

Clearly that should all be a single paragraph. It would be inappropriate to trigger a list just because the line wrapping happens to create what might look like a list item. The point is that Markdown can't tell the difference, so you should be required to insert a blank line if both lines are not part of the same paragraph.

If you want to go through your documents and automate the insertion of blank lines, you can. But how can you be certain you aren't splitting up a paragraph? I suppose because it would have been rendered that way to begin with it would at least be consistent.

In any event, I am closing this as wontfix.