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by scrollaway 4102 days ago
Yeah you're absolutely right. RST was great when Markdown wasn't around, but Markdown is just better.

It's a bit of a toughie, the python community doesn't have much to deal with Markdown itself. pypi expects rst etc. There's also very few tools available in general, which is a huge shame.

Part of this is due to different Markdown "flavours". At this point though, Github being the largest provider of Markdown, a safe bet would be to standardize on Github's flavour and call it a day.

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"a safe bet would be to standardize on Github's flavour and call it a day." - yes, definitely. That's precisely what I'm doing in SageMathCloud.