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

Tres Seaver tseaver at palladion.com
Thu Jul 24 22:21:12 CEST 2008


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Chris Withers wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I was to check how my long_description will show on pypi before I upload 
> the egg.
> 
> What's the best way do this?

How about the following?

 $ python setup.py --long-description | rst2html > long_desc.html

Tres.
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