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brew install docutils v0.23 LicenseRef-Homebrew-public-domain AND BSD-2-Clause AND GPL-3.0-or-later AND Python-2.0

Python text processing system for parsing and converting reStructuredText (reST) markup to HTML, LaTeX, and other formats.

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Essential build dependency for Sphinx documentation projects and Python packages that generate docs from reST source. Includes command-line tools (rst2html, rst2latex, rst2man) for one-off reST conversions without needing a full documentation framework. Widely used in Python ecosystem as the canonical reST parser.

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