[Python] Python Markdown - Not adding codehilite

I am using Flask to write a Blog, with that I am using Markdown's Python library to generate HTML for me, I am willing to have syntax highlighting, therefore I am using markdown.markdown(string, extensions=['codehilite']

According to their wiki, it should add a html class;

<div class="codehilite"><pre><code># Code goes here ...</code></pre></div>


But it doesn't seem to be working, following the tryouts from my interpreter;

In [9]: markdown.version
Out[9]: '2.3.1'

In [10]: text = """::ython
....: import os
....: print "This is a text!"
....: """

In [11]: html = markdown.markdown(text, extensions=['codehilite'])

In [12]: html
Out[12]: u'<p>::ython\nimport os\nprint "This is a text!"</p>'

In [13]: # Even more funnier, when following the examples in the usage section "..['codehilite(linenums=True)']

In [14]: html = markdown.markdown(text, extensions=['codehilite(linenums=True)'])

In [15]: html
Out[15]: u'<p>::ython\nimport os\nprint "This is a text!"</p>'

In [16]: # No line numbers, or any class..


I am not sure what's the problem here, I have Pygments installed, I already upgraded Markdown's lib, but nothing. The expected results here would be that Markdown would add the html class codehilite so I will be able to get the syntax working. What seems to be the problem here?

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