Re: [Docutils-users] Re: FW: Another Problem with latex writer

[David A. <da...@bo...>]

eng...@ss... writes:

> you were a little greedy, this one::
>
>   text = re.sub(r'[^{][\\]', r'{\textbackslash}', text)
>
> will replace any the backslash AND the preceeding character (except for a
> brace). 

Oops.

> AND there need to be two backslashes.

I'm pretty sure that's wrong: note that they're raw strings.  Did you
test the result?


-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com