reStructuredText

reStructuredText (RST, ReST, or reST) is a file format for textual data used primarily in the <a href="/facts/Python_programming_language/YbuGqofa">Python programming language</a> community for <a href="/facts/Technical_documentation/zFRh8FWP">technical documentation</a>.
It is part of the Docutils project of the Python Doc-SIG (Documentation Special Interest Group), aimed at creating a set of tools for Python similar to <a href="/facts/Javadoc/pm72Xvlf">Javadoc</a> for <a href="/facts/Java_(programming_language)/9ScgFyAL">Java</a> or <a href="/facts/Plain_Old_Documentation/wpKtRCUk">Plain Old Documentation</a> (POD) for <a href="/facts/Perl/fx31kjlT">Perl</a>. Docutils can extract comments and information from Python programs, and format them into various forms of program documentation.
In this sense, reStructuredText is a <a href="/facts/Lightweight_markup_language/2N0GJx5b">lightweight markup language</a> designed to be both processable by documentation-processing software such as Docutils, and be easily readable by human programmers who are reading and writing Python <a href="/facts/Source_code/o9J6Jv23">source code</a>.

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