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

Question

In many django projects, in the docs directory I can see *.rst files:

Is there a standard, simple, or common way of rendering and displaying these, instead of viewing their contents as plain text?

Is it possible to generate HTML from the .rst files?

Answer 1

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