Parsing reStructuredText into HTML

Solution 1:

Try something like this:

>>> from docutils.core import publish_string
>>> publish_string("*anurag*", writer_name='html')

publish_string accepts a strings and outputs a string or you can use publish_parts to get specific parts of html document e.g.

>>> from docutils.core import publish_parts
>>> print publish_parts("*anurag*", writer_name='html')['html_body']
<p><em>anurag</em></p>