No docutils, pandoc, or any other tricks! Just a README.md and a setup.py.
See the source for this project here:
https://github.com/di/markdown-description-example.
Instructions to do this for your project are here:
https://dustingram.com/articles/2018/03/16/markdown-descriptions-on-pypi
What we can do:
We can do italics and bold text.
- Lists
- Are
- Fun
- Too
- (But please use responsibly)
Code blocks:
>>> pypi_supports_markdown
True
And much much more!