setuptools-markdown
Use Markdown <http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/>
__ for your
project description
This project is deprecated.
Instead of using this, you should use the built-in functionality of
setuptools and PyPI.
See this page <https://dustingram.com/articles/2018/03/16/markdown-descriptions-on-pypi/>
__
for details.
Install
.. code:: console
pip install setuptools-markdown
Use
.. code:: python
#!/usr/bin/env python
# setup.py
from setuptools import setup
setup(
...
setup_requires=['setuptools-markdown'],
long_description_markdown_filename='README.md',
...
)
The plugin will read the specified file, convert it to
reST <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReStructuredText>
__ using
pypandoc <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pypandoc>
__ and store the
resulting reST in the long_description
metadata field of your
distribution.