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Merge pull request #3802 from ivanov/doc-to-rst...
Merge pull request #3802 from ivanov/doc-to-rst This renames our documentation files to .rst so that it renders nicely on GitHub The docs build just fine with these changes, it'd be good to get this in before any more changes are made to the docs

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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
# 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 = out.decode(encoding, 'replace')
return out[:-1]