[Distutils] how to get pypi-equivalent rendering of long_description?

[Marius Gedminas]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:51:31PM +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:37 PM, Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk>
> wrote:
> 
> > Tres Seaver wrote:
> >
> >> How about the following?
> >>
> >>  $ python setup.py --long-description | rst2html > long_desc.html
> >
> > Where does rst2html come from?
> 
> $ easy_install docutils
> 
> on my laptop the script is "rst2html.py" though

If you have the ReST text in a separate file, you may find restview
useful (http://mg.pov.lt/restview/; easy_install restview).

Marius Gedminas
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