+1 I eventually found it just the way you describe Tarek, and with Ian's suggestion.
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 5:02 AM, Tarek Ziadé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would be in favor of a warning message generated by PyPI when a > long_description > field is not reST compliant. I don't think it is a client-side job. > > In any case you can test your long_description field like this: > > $ python setup.py --long-description | rst2html.py --strict > /dev/null > > If something goes wrong in the conversion you'll get a warning here > > On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 2:19 AM, Noah Gift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I thought I would post a generally help tip that Ian Bicking helped me > > with. I couldn't figure out why my ReST formatted long_description > > field would not get converted to HTML when I registered my egg with > > the cheeseshop: > > > > python setup.py register > > > > It turns out I had a minor error in my ReST formatting, I didn't > > underline a headline with enough length. So, the moral of the story > > is if you wonder why you cannot get HTML formatted ReST to display > > when you register your egg, it is possible you have a formatting > > error. It was tricky for me to discover, because I did not get any > > error message when I uploaded to the cheeseshop, and I just missed the > > minor formatting error when I was viewing the converted HTML document > > I used to preview what I created. > > > > > > Noah Gift / http://noahgift.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > > > > > > -- > Tarek Ziadé | Association AfPy | www.afpy.org > Blog FR | http://programmation-python.org > Blog EN | http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/
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