docs: def markdown_to_text(body):
      """Converts markdown to text.
  
      Args:
          body: markdown (or plaintext, or maybe HTML) input
  
      Returns:
          Plaintext with all tags and frills removed
      """
      # Turn our input into HTML
      md = markdown.markdown(body, extensions=[
          'markdown.extensions.extra'
      ])
  
      # Safely parse HTML so that we don't have to parse it ourselves
      soup = BeautifulSoup(md, 'html.parser')
  
      # Return just the text of the parsed HTML
      return soup.get_text()