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# Smart_Strong

## Summary

The Smart_Strong extension adds smarter handling of double underscores within words. This does for double underscores what smart_emphasis does for single underscores.

The Smart_Strong extension is included in the standard Markdown library.

## Example

    >>> import markdown
    >>> markdown.markdown('Text with double__underscore__words.', \
                          extensions=['markdown.extensions.smart_strong'])
    u'<p>Text with double__underscore__words.</p>'
    >>> markdown.markdown('__Strong__ still works.', \
                          extensions=['markdown.extensions.smart_strong'])
    u'<p><strong>Strong</strong> still works.</p>'
    >>> markdown.markdown('__this__works__too__.', \
                          extensions=['markdown.extensions.smart_strong'])
    u'<p><strong>this__works__too</strong>.</p>'

## Usage

See Extensions for general extension usage, specify `markdown.extensions.smart_strong` as the name of the extension.

This extension does not accept any special configuration options.

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