utils/markdown.py

"""Markdown utilities

This file contains a collection of utility functions for dealing with 
markdown.
"""
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# Copyright (c) 2013, the IPython Development Team.
#
# Distributed under the terms of the Modified BSD License.
#
# The full license is in the file COPYING.txt, distributed with this software.
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Imports
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from __future__ import print_function

# Stdlib imports
import subprocess

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# Functions
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# Pandoc-dependent code
def markdown2latex(src):
    """Convert a markdown string to LaTeX via pandoc.

    This function will raise an error if pandoc is not installed.

    Any error messages generated by pandoc are printed to stderr.

    Parameters
    ----------
    src : string
      Input string, assumed to be valid markdown.

    Returns
    -------
    out : string
      Output as returned by pandoc.
    """
    p = subprocess.Popen('pandoc -f markdown -t latex'.split(),
                         stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
    out, err = p.communicate(src.encode('utf-8'))
    if err:
        print(err, file=sys.stderr)
    #print('*'*20+'\n', out, '\n'+'*'*20)  # dbg
    return unicode(out, 'utf-8')


def markdown2rst(src):
    """Convert a markdown string to LaTeX via pandoc.

    This function will raise an error if pandoc is not installed.

    Any error messages generated by pandoc are printed to stderr.

    Parameters
    ----------
    src : string
      Input string, assumed to be valid markdown.

    Returns
    -------
    out : string
      Output as returned by pandoc.
    """
    p = subprocess.Popen('pandoc -f markdown -t rst'.split(),
                         stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
    out, err = p.communicate(src.encode('utf-8'))
    if err:
        print(err, file=sys.stderr)
    #print('*'*20+'\n', out, '\n'+'*'*20)  # dbg
    return unicode(out, 'utf-8')