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html2rest.py
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Convert HTML to restructuredText. Very limited, but intended as a "50%" tool, to be
followed by manual editing.

Install
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::

    easy_install html2rest

Or::

    pip install html2rest

Usage
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From the command line::

    html2rest http://sphinx.pocoo.org/templating.html > templating.rst

Or programmatically::

    from html2rest import html2rest

    stream = StringIO()

    html2rest('<ul><li>one</li><li>two</li></ul>', writer=stream)

Specify input encoding (default is 'utf8') and a preprocessor::

    def strip_chars(html):
        return html.replace('¶', '')
    
    html2rest(html, writer=stream, encoding='latin1', preprocess=strip_chars)