[Docutils-users] Re: Getting a node's indentation

[Mohsen M. <mo...@sc...>]

Quoting Felix Wiemann <Fel...@gm...>:

> Mohsen Moeeni wrote:
> 
> > ``node.rawsource`` returns the source of a node stripping its
> > indentation, while for some reason, I need the indented version.
> 
> I don't think it's (easily) possible to retrieve a node's indentation,
> because in many (or even most) cases it simply doesn't matter to the RST
> parser.
> 
> But why do you need to know the indentation?  I.e., what specific
> problem are you trying to solve that way?
>

It's a long story related to a Zope product which I
am developing. The product is like ``BackTalk`` but
it uses ``ReST`` instead of ``STX``. BackTalk is a
product which is used to delveop Zope Book and lets
reader to annotate the text.

I can express the problem with this statement: I attach
an Id to each node. Having a node's Id, In some function,
I need to put a directive just after that node. I can
find the node with its Id and get its rawsource. If the 
rawsource was indented, I could use a simple python code
to put the directive in its place (This code does not
consider that there might be multiple nodes with the same
source, however I have managed this case in the existing
code, but for sake of brievity, I do not go into that 
here)::

  parts = source.split(rawsource)
  source = parts[0] + rawsource + \
  '\n\n.. mydirective::' + parts[1]

But now that there is no easy way to get the indented
version of a node, I have to play with regular expressions
to split the source. Thanks for your reply.

Cheers,
Mohsen,