I am trying to write a script that could convert things like \\[ or \\] to $$ in order to convert a MultiMarkdown document to Pandoc markdown document that could display equations in HTML. I am using Python to find all instances of these characters using
matchstring=r'\\['
re.sub(matchstring,'$$',content)
However I run into the following error:
unexpected end of regular expression:line 15:matchstring=re.compile(r'\\[')
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/re.py", line 190:
return _compile(pattern, flags)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/re.py", line 245:
raise error, v # invalid expression
most likely because of the last [ I have in there. Does anyone know a way to get around this?
pandoc -f markdown_mmd -t markdown
will do this for you! (For pandoc >= 1.11)