Use pandoc to convert README.md to rst for setuptools.long_description

michaeljoseph · Oct 17, 2013 · a4e4b15 · a4e4b15
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diff --git a/changes/__init__.py b/changes/__init__.py
@@ -7,3 +7,4 @@
 
 
 from .cli import main  # noqa
+from .pandoc import md2rst
diff --git a/changes/pandoc.py b/changes/pandoc.py
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+import pypandoc
+#
+
+def md2rst(markdown):
+    return pypandoc.convert(
+        markdown.decode('utf-8'),
+        'rst',
+        format='md'
+    )
+
+
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 import re
 from setuptools import setup
 
+import changes
+
 init_py = open('changes/__init__.py').read()
 metadata = dict(re.findall("__([a-z]+)__ = '([^']+)'", init_py))
 metadata['doc'] = re.findall('"""(.+)"""', init_py)[0]
@@ -9,6 +11,7 @@
     name='changes',
     version=metadata['version'],
     description=metadata['doc'],
+    long_description=changes.md2rst('README.md'),
     author=metadata['author'],
     author_email=metadata['email'],
     url=metadata['url'],