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--- a/convert_readme.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+# You will need pandoc to be installed for this to work correctly, as well as the PyPI packages docutils and pygments
+
+set -e
 pandoc --from=markdown --to=rst --output README.rst README.md
+python setup.py check --restructuredtext --strict --metadata