On 25/09/2019 12:04, Ulrich Goebel wrote:
Hello,
what I want:
I want a function which converts a markdown-formatted string to a
latex-formatted string
[snip]
I have a extern tool pandoc which does exactly what I want, but it
works on files. This tool is able to work as a pipe, so it uses
the standard input and standard outpu.
What I could do:
def markdown_to_latex (m : string)
write the string m to a file
call pandoc to work on that file
read the outputfile into the string l
return (l)
What would be nice:
I would like to avoid the extra steps writing an reading extern files.
subprocess is your friend here. Something like:
import subprocess
def mardown_to_latex(markdown_string):
latex = subprocess.run(cmd_string_for_pandoc,
input=markdown_string,
string=True,
capture_output=True)
return latex.output
The above is completely untested and not in the least bit robust, but
that's the area of the standard library you should be looking at.
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