[Distutils] [PyPI] Checking reST compliance of long description

[Andreas Jung]

--On 3. März 2008 10:58:33 +0000 stephen emslie <stephenemslie at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> This could be due to a bug in the way that distutils escapes (folds)
> whitespace in the long_description field. I have seen that cause
> errors when rst2html expects indentation which has been lost in the
> escaping process.
>
> For more information see: http://bugs.python.org/issue1923 (meaningful
> whitespace can be lost in rfc822_escape). There is also a patch there
> which you could apply and see if it solves your problem.
>
> It looks like there may be another issue with the unfolding of this
> field: http://bugs.python.org/issue504152.
>

As part of my work on haufe.releaser I added new setuptools command
'check_description' that performs a reST check before uploading a
dist file:

<http://pypi.python.org/pypi/haufe.releaser/>

Andreas

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