rst and pypandoc

[Mark Lawrence]

On 02/03/2015 22:40, alb wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> Dave Angel <davea at davea.name> wrote:
> []
>>>> or use a raw string:
>>>>
>>>> i = r'\\ref{fig:abc}'
>>
>> Actually that'd be:
>>     i = r'\ref{fig:abc}'
>
> Could you explain why I then see the following difference:
>
> In [56]: inp = r'\\ref{fig:abc}'
>
> In [57]: print pypandoc.convert(inp, 'latex', format='rst')
> \textbackslash{}ref\{fig:abc\}
>
>
> In [58]: inp = r'\ref{fig:abc}'
>
> In [59]: print pypandoc.convert(inp, 'latex', format='rst')
> ref\{fig:abc\}
>
> The two results are clearly *not* the same, even though the two inp
> /claim/ to be the same...
>
> Al
>

The two inps are *not* the same.  Steven D'Aprano mislead you with a 
typo, or so he claims :)  Dave Angel pointed this out.  Steven replied. 
  You've either missed these emails or simply not read them.

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Mark Lawrence