I can totally relate with these points. Especially the first one. Rst format can get so tricky. I had to spend a good amount of time understanding it and getting it working. Even today I have some problems with it. Like for example, centering text in Rst seems impossible!
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Other tips I whish I knew:
Check that your long_description renders without warnings by using a README.rst file and checking it with
rst2html5.py
(from the docutils package)Take the time to create a release on github too, because downstream users may try and find the sources there and not on pypi
Use setup.cfg, poetry or flint instead of actual python code in setup.py if you can
I can totally relate with these points. Especially the first one. Rst format can get so tricky. I had to spend a good amount of time understanding it and getting it working. Even today I have some problems with it. Like for example, centering text in Rst seems impossible!
Thanks for adding these points!