Parsing reStructuredText into HTML
Try something like this:
>>> from docutils.core import publish_string>>> publish_string("*anurag*", writer_name='html')
publish_string
accepts a strings and outputs a string or you can use publish_parts to get specific parts of html document e.g.
>>> from docutils.core import publish_parts>>> print publish_parts("*anurag*", writer_name='html')['html_body']<p><em>anurag</em></p>