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"""Utility for calling pandoc"""
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#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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# Copyright (c) 2013 the IPython Development Team.
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#
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# Distributed under the terms of the Modified BSD License.
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#
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# The full license is in the file COPYING.txt, distributed with this software.
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#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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# Imports
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#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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from __future__ import print_function
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# Stdlib imports
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import sys
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import subprocess
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# IPython imports
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from IPython.utils.py3compat import cast_bytes
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#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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# Classes and functions
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#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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def pandoc(source, fmt, to, encoding='utf-8'):
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"""Convert an input string in format `from` to format `to` via pandoc.
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This function will raise an error if pandoc is not installed.
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Any error messages generated by pandoc are printed to stderr.
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Parameters
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----------
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source : string
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Input string, assumed to be valid format `from`.
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fmt : string
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The name of the input format (markdown, etc.)
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to : string
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The name of the output format (html, etc.)
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Returns
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-------
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out : unicode
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Output as returned by pandoc.
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"""
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p = subprocess.Popen(['pandoc', '-f', fmt, '-t', to],
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stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE
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)
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out, _ = p.communicate(cast_bytes(source, encoding))
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out = out.decode(encoding, 'replace')
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return out[:-1]
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