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

[Chris Withers]

Tarek Ziadé wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:37 PM, Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk 
> <mailto:chris at simplistix.co.uk>> wrote:
> 
>     Tres Seaver wrote:
> 
>         How about the following?
> 
>          $ python setup.py --long-description | rst2html > long_desc.html
> 
> 
>     Where does rst2html come from?
> 
> 
> $ easy_install docutils
> 
> on my laptop the script is "rst2html.py" though

Indeed, and the following seems to give a close-enough approximation of 
what will show on PyPI:

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

cheers,

Chris

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