Convert README to Markdown #125
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reStructuredText is powerful, and good for big documentation, but it's complex.
Let's prefer simpler Markdown for standalone README files.
One difference: with reST we can use
.. contents::to insert a table of contents. Markdown can't do that, we would need to manually add a hardcoded table. I've not done this (but can). Instead, GitHub automatically generates a ToC; for example click the icon at https://github.com/python/bedevere:For the badges, I added little PyPI and Python icons for the first two:
https://github.com/hugovk/cherry-picker/tree/convert-readme-to-md
What do you think of them? Maybe the PyPI one is a little unclear?