[Distutils] PyPI template improvements

Ian Bicking ianb at colorstudy.com
Thu Jun 17 20:29:36 CEST 2010


On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

> On Jun 17, 2010, at 12:56 PM, Ian Bicking wrote:
>
> >* Kind of relatedly, make long descriptions wrap in some fashion.  Right
> now
> >if you have a plain-text long_description for your project without
> newlines
> >it just gets really wide.  I think that'd be fixable with just CSS.
>
> How about supporting reST in descriptions?
>

It is supported, but if something doesn't render cleanly as reST it is
treated as plain text and wrapped in an unwrapping <pre>.

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