[Django]-How to render .rst files in a markdown or html format?

.rst files are ReStructuredText format. They look like text files, but can be rendered into HTML with the Python docutils package.

As zjk says, you can use restview:

restview is available from the Python Package Index: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/restview. You can also pip install restview.

Here is what I did to test it out using a virtual environment:

mkdir restview
cd restview/
virtualenv-2.7 venv   # The second system I used just used 'virtualenv venv'
./venv/bin/pip install restview
./venv/bin/restview ~/path/MANUAL.rst 

This launched a web server and opened the documentation page in my browser.

Note: I only used virtualenv because I don’t like installing things globally. It may be overkill for many others, but I also have better luck with these one-off environemnets. When I tried pip install restview on an Ubuntu 14.04 VM it failed, whereas the approach above worked like a charm for me on that system as well as this one.

Try restview