rstcheck 6.2.5

Checks syntax of reStructuredText and code blocks nested within it

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Checks syntax of reStructuredText and code blocks nested within it.

See the full documentation at read-the-docs

Contents

• Installation

• Supported languages in code blocks

• Examples

Installation

From pip

$ pip install rstcheck

To use pyproject.toml for configuration:

$ pip install rstcheck[toml]

To add sphinx support:

$ pip install rstcheck[sphinx]

Supported languages in code blocks

• Bash

• Doctest

• C (C99)

• C++ (C++11)

• JSON

• XML

• Python

• reStructuredText

Examples

With bad Python syntax:

====
Test
====

.. code:: python

    print(

$ rstcheck bad_python.rst
bad_python.rst:7: (ERROR/3) (python) unexpected EOF while parsing

With bad C++ syntax:

====
Test
====

.. code:: cpp

    int main()
    {
        return x;
    }

$ rstcheck bad_cpp.rst
bad_cpp.rst:9: (ERROR/3) (cpp) error: 'x' was not declared in this scope

With bad syntax in the reStructuredText document itself:

====
Test
===

$ rstcheck bad_rst.rst
bad_rst.rst:1: (SEVERE/4) Title overline & underline mismatch.