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pandoc.py
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"""Utility for calling pandoc"""
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# 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
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
from __future__ import print_function
# Stdlib imports
import subprocess
from io import TextIOWrapper, BytesIO
# IPython imports
from IPython.utils.py3compat import cast_bytes
from .exceptions import ConversionException
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Classes and functions
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
class PandocMissing(ConversionException):
"""Exception raised when Pandoc is missing. """
pass
def pandoc(source, fmt, to, extra_args=None, encoding='utf-8'):
"""Convert an input string in format `from` to format `to` via pandoc.
This function will raise an error if pandoc is not installed.
Any error messages generated by pandoc are printed to stderr.
Parameters
----------
source : string
Input string, assumed to be valid format `from`.
fmt : string
The name of the input format (markdown, etc.)
to : string
The name of the output format (html, etc.)
Returns
-------
out : unicode
Output as returned by pandoc.
"""
command = ['pandoc', '-f', fmt, '-t', to]
if extra_args:
command.extend(extra_args)
try:
p = subprocess.Popen(command,
stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE
)
except OSError as e:
raise PandocMissing(
"The command '%s' returned an error: %s.\n" %(" ".join(command), e) +
"Please check that pandoc is installed:\n" +
"http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/installing.html"
)
out, _ = p.communicate(cast_bytes(source, encoding))
out = TextIOWrapper(BytesIO(out), encoding, 'replace').read()
return out.rstrip('\n')