[2] In this sense, reStructuredText is a lightweight markup language designed to be both processable by documentation-processing software such as Docutils, and be easily readable by human programmers who are reading and writing Python source code.

[13][needs update] In July 2016 the Linux kernel project decided to transition from DocBook based documentation to reStructuredText and the Sphinx toolchain.

[14][15][circular reference] The software build tool CMake switched from a custom markup language to reStructuredText in version 3.0 for its documentation.

If text is indented, it is treated as a block quotation, and the final attribution line is handled automatically:Should array indices start at 0 or 1?

-- Stan Kelly-BootlereST uses :: at the end of the paragraph prior to a pre-formatted code block:Multi-line text canspan in tableswith a pipe character.