On Sep 22, 2013, at 5:15 PM, PJ Eby wrote:

On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Paul G. wrote:

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1. What format should I use in my README.txt file for my package's content to be displayed on its package page?

It's not the README file; it's the package's "long_description" keyword, as specified in your setup.py setup() call. And the format is reStructuredText

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2. Do I have to use a different extension for the README?

It doesn't matter, since the README is not read by PyPI. (You can put code in your setup.py to read the file into the long_description field, though. Take a look at other packages' setup.py files to see how they do it.) _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig

Oops, I missed this, in some cases PyPI will read a README.rst (maybe a .txt too), typically if a long_description is not available. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA

I added the use of README to catch all the github users who weren't filling in their long_description (but also weren't using Markdown - I just didn't find the time to also add something to detect Markdown and render it). On 23 September 2013 08:01, Chris Jerdonek wrote:

On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 2:15 PM, PJ Eby wrote:

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On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Paul G. wrote:

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1. What format should I use in my README.txt file for my package's content to be displayed on its package page?

It's not the README file; it's the package's "long_description" keyword, as specified in your setup.py setup() call. And the format is reStructuredText

For the record, the Python documentation covers this aspect of PyPI:

http://docs.python.org/distutils/packageindex.html#pypi-package-display

It also includes some troubleshooting info. However, it doesn't include anything about PyPI reading README.rst, etc if long_description isn't available (which maybe should be added).

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