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Turn a reStructedTest into HTML using the docutils Python API.
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#! /usr/bin/env python | |
# Author: Joseph Lisee <[email protected]> | |
__doc__ == """ | |
Example of using docutils to process reStructedText into HTML. | |
Usage to file: | |
./rst2html_example.py README.rst -o README.html | |
To stdout: | |
./rst2html_example.py README.rst > README.html | |
""" | |
import argparse | |
import os | |
import sys | |
from docutils.core import publish_string | |
def main(): | |
# Find the path to the input and output file | |
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='reSructuredText to HTML') | |
parser.add_argument('input', metavar='I', type=str, | |
help='Input file to process') | |
parser.add_argument('-o','--output', default=None, help='Output file') | |
args = parser.parse_args() | |
# Load the input into a string | |
readme = file(args.input).read() | |
# Parse into HTML | |
html = publish_string(readme,writer_name='html') | |
# Output result | |
if args.output: | |
# Write to disk | |
with file(os.path.join(args.output), 'w') as f: | |
f.write(html) | |
else: | |
# Print to stdout | |
print(html) | |
if __name__ == '__main__': | |
sys.exit(main()) |
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