commit 6495cd135f15c3775613c79b008ad62f6726573e
Author: José Matos <[email protected]>
Date: Tue May 9 16:53:32 2017 +0100
make python string compliant with python 2 and 3
python 2 does not allow to declare a string as raw byte so we double
the backslashes and remove the r preffix
python 3 accepts rb"..." meaning a byte string that is raw. In this context
raw means that the backslash does not has any special meaning and thus it
is not escaped. This is usefull together with regular expressions where the
backslashes are special.
In the worst possible case, like this one, we must use 4 backslashes to
represent
one in the regular expression...
---
lib/scripts/lyxpreview2bitmap.py | 4 +++-
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/scripts/lyxpreview2bitmap.py b/lib/scripts/lyxpreview2bitmap.py
index 68d0a4d..094e8f9 100755
--- a/lib/scripts/lyxpreview2bitmap.py
+++ b/lib/scripts/lyxpreview2bitmap.py
@@ -161,7 +161,9 @@ def extract_metrics_info(dvipng_stdout):
def fix_latex_file(latex_file, pdf_output):
- def_re = re.compile(rb"(\\newcommandx|\\global\\long\\def)(\\[a-zA-Z]+)")
+ # python 2 does not allow to declare a string as raw byte so we double
+ # the backslashes and remove the r preffix
+ def_re =
re.compile(rb"(\\\\newcommandx|\\\\global\\\\long\\\\def)(\\\\[a-zA-Z]+)")
tmp = mkstemp()
