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Readme Renderer is a library that will safely render arbitrary
README
files into HTML. It is designed to be used in Warehouse_ to
render the long_description
for packages. It can handle Markdown,
reStructuredText (.rst
), and plain text.
.. _Warehouse: https://github.com/pypa/warehouse
To locally check whether your long descriptions will render on PyPI, first build your distributions, and then use the |twine check|_ command.
Everyone interacting in the readme_renderer project's codebases, issue trackers,
chat rooms, and mailing lists is expected to follow the PSF Code of Conduct
_.
.. |twine check| replace:: twine check
.. _twine check: https://packaging.python.org/guides/making-a-pypi-friendly-readme#validating-restructuredtext-markup
.. _PSF Code of Conduct: https://github.com/pypa/.github/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
Copyright © 2014, [The Python Packaging Authority].
FAQs
readme_renderer is a library for rendering readme descriptions for Warehouse
We found that readme-renderer demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 4 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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