rst and pypandoc

[alb]

Hi Steven,

Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
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>> In [43]: print pypandoc.convert(s, 'latex', format='rst')
>> this is \textbackslash{}some restructured text.
>> 
>> since a literal backslash gets converted to a literal latex backslash.
> 
> Why is this a problem? Isn't the ultimate aim to pass it through latex,
> which will then covert the \textbackslash{} back into a backslash? If not,
> I have misunderstood something.

\textbackslash{} is a latex command to typeset a backslash into the 
text. This is not what I need. I need to have a string of the form 
"\some" (actually we are talking about \ref or \hyperref commands).

> If not, you could do something like this:
> 
> s = 'this is %(b)ssome restructured text.'
> t = pypandoc.convert(s, 'latex', format='rst')
> assert t == 'this is %(b)ssome restructured text.'
> print t % {'b': '\\'}

This is somehow what I'm doing now, but is very dirty and difficult to 
expand to other corner cases.

Al