I would be in favor of a warning message generated by PyPI when a long_description
field is not reST compliant. I don't think it is a client-side job.

In any case you can test your long_description field like this:

$ python setup.py --long-description | rst2html.py --strict > /dev/null

If something goes wrong in the conversion you'll get a warning here

On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 2:19 AM, Noah Gift <noah.gift@gmail.com> wrote:
I thought I would post a generally help tip that Ian Bicking helped me
with.  I couldn't figure out why my ReST formatted long_description
field would not get converted to HTML when I registered my egg with
the cheeseshop:

python setup.py register

It turns out I had a minor error in my ReST formatting, I didn't
underline a headline with enough length.  So, the moral of the story
is if you wonder why you cannot get HTML formatted ReST to display
when you register your egg, it is possible you have a formatting
error.  It was tricky for me to discover, because I did not get any
error message when I uploaded to the cheeseshop, and I just missed the
minor formatting error when I was viewing the converted HTML document
I used to preview what I created.


Noah Gift / http://noahgift.com

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