single py file for convert rst to html

Question

I have a blog written in reStructuredText which I currently have to manually convert to HTML when I make a new post.

I'm writing a new blog system using Google App Engine and need a simple way of converting rst to HTML.

I don't want to use docutils because it is too big and complex. Is there a simpler (ideally single python file) way I can do this?

Answer 1

docutils is a library that you can install. It also installs front end tools to convert from rest to various formats including html.

• http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/tools.html#rst2html-py

This is a stand alone tool that can be used.

Most converters will exploit the docutils library for this.