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@hugovk hugovk commented Mar 21, 2024

reStructuredText is powerful, and good for big documentation, but it's complex.

Let's prefer simpler Markdown for standalone README files.

One difference: with reST we can use .. contents:: to insert a table of contents. Markdown can't do that, we would need to manually add a hardcoded table. I've not done this (but can). Instead, GitHub automatically generates a ToC; for example click the icon at https://github.com/python/bedevere:

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For the badges, I added little PyPI and Python icons for the first two:

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https://github.com/hugovk/cherry-picker/tree/convert-readme-to-md

What do you think of them? Maybe the PyPI one is a little unclear?

@hugovk hugovk merged commit b31e3bd into python:main Apr 14, 2024
@hugovk hugovk deleted the convert-readme-to-md branch April 15, 2024 20:58
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