tools/rst2man.py

   1 #!/usr/bin/env python
   2
   3 # Author:
   4 # Contact: grubert@users.sf.net
   5 # Copyright: This module has been placed in the public domain.
   6
   7 """
   8 man.py
   9 ======
  10
  11 This module provides a simple command line interface that uses the
  12 man page writer to output from ReStructuredText source.
  13 """
  14
  15 import locale
  16 try:
  17     locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
  18 except:
  19     pass
  20
  21 from docutils.core import publish_cmdline, default_description
  22 from docutils.writers import manpage
  23
  24 description = ("Generates plain unix manual documents.  " + default_description)
  25
  26 publish_cmdline(writer=manpage.Writer(), description=description)