[Catalog-sig] HTML in long description

Chris Withers chris at simplistix.co.uk
Mon Aug 31 14:11:39 CEST 2009


Tarek wrote:
>> That could be done, either way, IMO. It might also be useful to have a
>> distutils command that generates a pypi-like page, so that people can
>> preview the rendered description.
> 
> yes that's basically :
> 
> $ python setup.py --long-description | rst2html.py > preview.html

I find the following gives better results:

# bin/buildout -q setup setup.py --long-description | rst2html.py 
--link-stylesheet --stylesheet=http://www.python.org/styles/styles.css > 
dist/desc.html

I just wish it didn't rely on rst2html being globally available...

cheers,

Chris

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