Converting Markdown to reStructuredText

A quick one-liner, which I recently used to convert a Markdown formatted README to reStructuredText, suitable for posting to PyPI:

pandoc --from=markdown --to=rst --output=README.rst README.md

5 thoughts on “Converting Markdown to reStructuredText”

Curtis says:

December 13, 2014 at 10:13 pm

If you don’t want to install pandoc, there’s a hosted version here: http://devotter.com/converter

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1. Michel Samia says:
  
  June 22, 2015 at 10:38 am
  
  This url works http://pandoc.org/try/, your doesn’t
  
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Kevin Ndung'u (@kevgathuku) says:

December 23, 2014 at 7:35 am

I honestly didn’t know something like this existed. I wasn’t too optimistic when I was googling it. Glad I found this.

Eventually I went with the pandoc online converter http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/try/

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Thomas Güttler says:

March 11, 2015 at 8:44 am

Here is an other online converter: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/try/

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gregorynicholas says:

May 10, 2016 at 9:02 am

brilliant . :+1:

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