ENH: read_md() and to_md() #59645
Description
Feature Type
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Adding new functionality to pandas
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Changing existing functionality in pandas
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Removing existing functionality in pandas
Problem Description
I wish I could read from markdown (md) files and write to md files. I use Obsidian (a md based note-taking app) to create tables that document a process that I will follow, but I want to be able to automate the rest of the process by reading those tables directly from md into a pandas data frame.
Feature Description
Add new functions for reading data frames from md and writing data frames to md.
Alternative Solutions
Since md is a superset of html, I have an add-on in Obsidian that allows me to export a md file to an html file. Every time I edit the md file, I re-export it to html then I use the read_html() function to read the tables in. It's totally a functionality of convenience. It takes out a manual step that I have to do every time.
I'm sure I could find an automatic way to turn md into html as well, but I it would definitely be more seamless if I could read the tables straight from md. I don't know a ton about how an md file would be read into python, but seeing as it's a superset of html, I'm assuming it shouldn't be that different from the read_html() parser that already exists.
I could make my own function to parse a markdown file and turn it into a data frame, but at this point, it's easier for me to press a button to convert to html than to write that whole python function.
Additional Context
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