Parsing inline rst into nodes

parse_inline_rst.py

import docutils.frontend

# http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/dev/hacking.html#parsing-the-document

parser = docutils.parsers.rst.Parser()
src = """

This is a heading
=================

some item

#. hello
#. world

"""
settings = docutils.frontend.OptionParser(
                    components=(docutils.parsers.rst.Parser,)
                    ).get_default_values()

document = docutils.utils.new_document("my file", settings)
parser.parse(src, document)
print dir(document)

def dumpdoc(document, level=0):
    for child in document.children:
        print "================================="
        #if child.tagname == '#text':
        #    print child.astext()
        print "%d -> %s" % (level, dir(child))
        if hasattr(child, 'text'):
            print child.text
        print ">> %s <<" % child.astext()
        dumpdoc(child, level + 1)

dumpdoc(document)