Pandoc (Python Library)

This library is still in pre-release; if you want to try it anyway:

$ pip install --user --pre --upgrade pandoc

Pandoc

Pandoc is the “document swiss army knife” made by John MacFarlane:

• a (command-line) tool to convert from one format into another,

• a (Haskell) library, used to analyze, create, transform documents,

• a document (meta-)model: a formal specification of what a document is.

I am a huge fan of pandoc and use it for pretty much everything I write. I am also a big fan of the Haskell programming language but I am still a newbie… and I am probably not alone! Therefore, to facilitate access to pandoc, I am working on a Python library and documenting this process.

Document Structure

Evolution of the Document Model

JSON Representation

A Pythonic API