PyScaffold extension which replaces reStructuredText formatted files by Markdown format (with the help of MyST) except for Sphinx-related files.

Just install this package with either pip install pyscaffoldext-markdown or conda install -c conda-forge pyscaffoldext-markdown and note that putup -h shows a new option --markdown. Basically this extension will replace README.rst by a proper README.md and activate the support of Markdown files in Sphinx.

By default, the tox configuration generated by PyScaffold is compatible with Markdown (as implemented in this extension). This means that (after installing tox with pip or pipx) you can run:

tox -e docs  # to build your documentation
tox -e build  # to build your package distribution
tox -e publish  # to test your project uploads correctly in test.pypi.org
tox -e publish -- --repository pypi  # to release your package to PyPI
tox -av  # to list all the tasks available

Please remember that the command python setup.py release is no longer recommended, so if you don't like tox, please consider using Sphinx and twine directly:

python -m pip install -U pip setuptools wheel sphinx twine
python setup.py bdist_wheel  # to build your package distributions
make -C docs html  # to build your docs
twine upload dist/*  # to release your package to PyPI

This project uses pre-commit, please make sure to install it before making any changes:

pip install pre-commit
cd pyscaffoldext-markdown
pre-commit install

It is a good idea to update the hooks to the latest version:

pre-commit autoupdate

Please also check PyScaffold's contribution guidelines.

This project has been set up using PyScaffold 4.0. For details and usage information on PyScaffold see https://pyscaffold.org/.