rst and pypandoc

[MRAB]

On 2015-03-02 13:51, alb wrote:
> Hi Steven,
>
> Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> []
>> Since \r is an escape character, that will give you carriage return followed
>> by "ef{fig:abc".
>>
>> The solution to that is to either escape the backslash:
>>
>> i = '\\ref{fig:abc}'
>>
>>
>> or use a raw string:
>>
>> i = r'\\ref{fig:abc}'
>
> ok, maybe I wasn't clear from the very beginning, but searching for a
> solution is a journey that takes time and patience.
>
> The worngly named variable i (as noted below), contains the *i*nput of
> my text which is supposed to be restructured text. The output is what
> pypandoc spits out after conversion:
>
> i = "\\begin{tag}{%s}{%s}\n %s\n \\end{tag}" % (some, restructured, text)
> o = pypandoc.convert(i, 'latex', format='rst')
>
> Now if i contains some inline text, i.e. text I do not want to convert
> in any other format, I need my text to be formatted accordingly in order
> to inject some escape symbols in i.
>
> Rst escapes with "\", but unfortunately python also uses "\" for escaping!
>
>>
>> Oh, by the way, "i" is normally a terrible variable name for a string. Not
>> only doesn't it explain what the variable is for, but there is a very
>> strong convention in programming circles (not just Python, but hundreds of
>> languages) that "i" is a generic variable name for an integer. Not a
>> string.
>
> I'm not in the position to argue about good practices, I simply found
> more appropriate to have i for input and o for output, considering they
> are used like this:
>
> i = "some string"
> o = pypandoc.convert(i, ...)
> f.write(o)
>
> with very little risk to cause misunderstanding.
>
>> Can you show what you are doing? Escaping the backslash with another
>> backslash does work:
>>
>> py> for c in '\\ref':
>> ...     print(c, ord(c))
>> ...
>> \ 92
>> r 114
>> e 101
>> f 102
>>
>> so either you are doing something wrong, or the error lies elsewhere.
>
> As said above, the string is converted by pandoc first and then printed.
> At this point the escaping becomes tricky (at least to me).
>
> In [17]: inp = '\\ref{fig:abc}'
>
> In [18]: print pypandoc.convert(inp, 'latex', format='rst')
> ref\{fig:abc\}
>
Have you tried escaping the escape character by doubling the backslash?

inp = '\\\\ref{fig:abc}'

or:

inp = r'\\ref{fig:abc}'