How to browse (no text editor) .rst files ?

Question

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

What is the best way to browse them (without using a text editor of course) ?

Is that possible to generate HTML ?

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

This page describes how to build Django's own documentation into HTML, via the Sphinx library. Other projects will probably work the same way.