Handling Markdown in Large Text Messages with pyTelegramBotAPI

[KrGolovin]

Hello pyTelegramBotAPI Team,

I'm currently facing an issue with sending large text messages that contain Markdown formatting. Telegram has a message limit of 4096 characters, and your library provides a useful function util.smart_split to divide a message into smaller parts. However, this function doesn't consider Markdown syntax, leading to potential Markdown errors when a message is split in the middle of Markdown elements.

For example:

splitted_text = util.smart_split(large_text, chars_per_string=3000)
for text in splitted_text:
    tb.send_message(chat_id, text)

This code works well for plain text, but if large_text includes Markdown elements, splitting it might disrupt the Markdown formatting, causing Telegram to return a Markdown error.

Do you have any recommendations or plans to enhance smart_split to handle Markdown formatting? Or could you suggest an alternative approach to tackle this problem?

Thank you for your time and assistance.

[coder2020official]

Maybe in future(if not near) we will add option to ignore markdown characters. I'll consider it