rich-rst

Render reStructuredText with Rich. This package turns reST documents into Rich renderables so you can preview documentation, docstrings, and snippets directly in the terminal. Also includes a CLI.

• Supports all currently documented RST elements.
• Handles common documentation features such as headings, lists, tables, links, images, code blocks, footnotes, and many Sphinx roles.
• Provides both a Python API and a command-line interface.
• Can also export rendered output to HTML from the CLI.

pip install rich-rst

from rich import print
from rich_rst import RestructuredText

document = """
rich-rst
========

This is a **test** document.

- Item one
- Item two

.. code-block:: python

   print("hello")
"""

print(RestructuredText(document))

The main constructor options are code_theme, show_line_numbers, show_errors, guess_lexer, default_lexer, and sphinx_compat.

Render a file:

python -m rich_rst readme.rst

Render from standard input:

python -m rich_rst -

View all available options:

python -m rich_rst --help

Useful flags include --code-theme, --show-line-numbers, --guess-lexer, --default-lexer, --show-errors, --save-html, --html-theme, --list-html-themes, --output, and --version.

The renderer is designed for terminal output, so not every docutils feature can be represented visually. The current limitations and unsupported elements are documented in ELEMENTS.md.

• Project documentation
• Extension API guide
• Source code
• Issue tracker

See CHANGELOG.md.