Is it possible to reconcile github and docutils buildhtml?

Question

Github will parse a reStructuredText file if its extension is .rst. The docutils buildhtml.py will only parse files with the extension .txt, and I can't see an option to change that. This is massively annoying. Is there any way to get Github to recognise .txt files as RST or buildhtml to recognise .rst files?

Answer 1

Perhaps you can just use a symlink?

Answer 2

buildhtml.py appears to just be a directory walker wrapped around docutils' internals. Considering its small size, the simplest solution is probably to just modify it to suit your needs by replacing the .txt test with a .rst test.