Module: nbconvert.utils.pandoc

Utility for calling pandoc

1 Class

class IPython.nbconvert.utils.pandoc.PandocMissing

Bases: IPython.nbconvert.utils.exceptions.ConversionException

Exception raised when Pandoc is missing.

1 Function

IPython.nbconvert.utils.pandoc.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.