Tag: ReStructured Text

  • Converting a Python data into a ReStructured Text table

    Converting a Python data into a ReStructured Text table

    This probably exist but I couldn’t find it. I wanted to export a bunch of data from a Python/Django application into something a non-coder could understand. The data was not going to be a plain CSV, but a document, with various tables and explanations of what each table is. Because ReStructured Text seems to be…

  • Turning a list of dicts into a ReStructured Text table

    I recently found myself having to prepare a report of some mortgage calculations so that non-technical domain experts could read it, evaluate it, and tell me whether my math and the way I was using certain APIs was correct. Since I’m using Python, I decided to go as native as possible and make my little…

  • ReStructured Text on WordPress

    I am coming from the Plone world. My web site used to be Plone and various website I still maintain are still Plone-based. In Plone, one of the formats to write text is ReStructured Text (RST); and Matt has convinced me it is the right way… or at least, one good way. But in the…