New to Django. Trying to wrap my head around markdown to html conversion using regex

[Joey Jo Jo Jr]

Hello all,

I'm working on a class assignment, so I'm not seeking a specific answer/code, but I'm just trying to figure out a general process.

The task is this...

I have some markdown files located in a directory, however when running the website they need to be displayed as html.  Because this is a learning assignment, no markdown conversion libraries are allowed.

So I'm tasked with using regular expressions to convert.  I understand regular expressions and have already formulated a few to change things like **text** to <strong>text</strong> and so on, but being so new to Django and still figuring out how it works, I'm just completely flummoxed on the execution/implementation.

So any general advice would be appreciated.