Added README reStructuredText validation.

README.rst

@@ -910,7 +910,7 @@ Please run the existing suite of tests before a pull request is submitted:
     tox
 
 
-Don't forget to add yourself to `AUTHORS`_.
+Don't forget to add yourself to `AUTHORS.rst`_.
 
 
 =======
@@ -1016,5 +1016,5 @@ Changelog
 .. _0.2.7: https://github.com/jkbr/httpie/compare/0.2.5...0.2.7
 .. _0.2.8dev: https://github.com/jkbr/httpie/compare/0.2.7...master
 .. _README for stable version: https://github.com/jkbr/httpie/tree/0.2.7#readme
-.. _AUTHORS: https://github.com/jkbr/httpie/blob/master/AUTHORS.rst
+.. _AUTHORS.rst: https://github.com/jkbr/httpie/blob/master/AUTHORS.rst
 .. _LICENSE: https://github.com/jkbr/httpie/blob/master/LICENSE

tests/tests.py

@@ -19,13 +19,13 @@ To make it run faster and offline you can::
     HTTPBIN_URL=http://localhost:5000 tox
 
 """
+import subprocess
 import os
 import sys
 import json
 import argparse
 import tempfile
 import unittest
-from requests import __version__ as requests_version
 try:
     from urllib.request import urlopen
 except ImportError:
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ except ImportError:
             return test_method
         return decorator
 
-
+from requests import __version__ as requests_version
 from requests.compat import is_windows, is_py26, bytes, str
 
 
@@ -115,6 +115,26 @@ class TestEnvironment(Environment):
         super(TestEnvironment, self).__init__(**kwargs)
 
 
+def has_docutils():
+    try:
+        #noinspection PyUnresolvedReferences
+        import docutils
+        return True
+    except ImportError:
+        return False
+
+def get_readme_errors():
+    p = subprocess.Popen([
+        'rst2pseudoxml.py',
+        '--report=1',
+        '--exit-status=1',
+        os.path.join(TESTS_ROOT, '..', 'README.rst')
+    ], stderr=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
+    err = p.communicate()[1]
+    if p.returncode:
+        return err
+
+
 class BytesResponse(bytes):
     stderr = json = exit_status = None
 class StrResponse(str):
@@ -1131,6 +1151,15 @@ class ArgumentParserTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
         ])
 
 
+
+class READMETest(BaseTestCase):
+
+    @skipIf(not has_docutils(), 'docutils not installed')
+    def test_README_reStructuredText_valid(self):
+        errors = get_readme_errors()
+        self.assertFalse(errors, msg=errors)
+
+
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     #noinspection PyCallingNonCallable
     unittest.main()