Is there a way to grab the markdown as text?

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In an older project I used markdownify to convert a markdown field into text, which I could then do pythonic things with. For instance in my models.py I did

class MyModel(models.Model):
    body = MarkdownxField()

...

    def snip(self):
        return markdownify(self.body)[:150] + "..."

to get just the first 150 characters of the body which was written in markdown. Does django-markdown-editor have something like this?

I found that it does have from martor.utils import markdownify however, using that on a MartorField() does NOT remove the html tags and return only the text. Is there a way to grab the contents of a MartorField() stripped of all html formatting?