title: reStructuredText
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meta: reStructuredText is a markup language implementation that is often used to document Python and other software projects.


[reStructuredText](http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html), sometimes
abbreviated as "RST" or "reST", is a [markup language](/markup-languages.html) 
implementation that is often used to document Python projects.


### reStructuredText resources
* [A brief tutorial on parsing reStructuredText (reST)](https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2017/a-brief-tutorial-on-parsing-restructuredtext-rest/)

* [reStructuredText vs. Markdown for technical documentation](https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2017/restructuredtext-vs-markdown-for-technical-documentation/)

* [RestructuredText (reST) and Sphinx CheatSheet](http://openalea.gforge.inria.fr/doc/openalea/doc/_build/html/source/sphinx/rest_syntax.html)

* [reStructuredText cheat sheet](https://imgur.com/a/2lZWZ)
