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A viewer for ReStructuredText documents that renders them on the fly.

Pass the name of a ReStructuredText document to restview, and it will launch a web server on localhost:random-port and open a web browser. Every time you reload the page, restview will reload the document from disk and render it. This is very convenient for previewing a document while you're editing it.

You can also pass the name of a directory, and restview will recursively look for files that end in .txt or .rst and present you with a list.

Finally, you can make sure your Python package has valid ReStructuredText in the long_description field by using :

restview --long-description

Usage: restview [options] filename-or-directory [...]

-h, --help show this help message and exit -l PORT, --listen=PORT listen on a given port (or interface:port, e.g. *:8080) [default: random port on localhost] -b, --browser open a web browser [default: only if -l was not specified] -e COMMAND, --execute=COMMAND run a command to produce ReStructuredText -w FILENAME, --watch=FILENAME reload the page when a file changes (use with --execute); can be specified multiple times --long-description run "python setup.py --long-description" to produce ReStructuredText; also enables --pypi-strict and watches the usual long description sources (setup.py, README.rst, CHANGES.rst) --css=URL-or-FILENAME use the specified stylesheet; can be specified multiple times [default: html4css1.css,restview.css] --strict halt at the slightest problem --pypi-strict enable additional restrictions that PyPI performs

On .deb based systems (e.g. Ubuntu) :

sudo apt-get install python-pip
sudo pip install restview

On .rpm based systems (e.g. Fedora) :

su
yum install python-pip
pip install restview