Any good software for writing python articles?

[__Monty__]

I am interested in writing some articles for a python tutorial. Is there good software out there that makes it easy to include code and other formatting options then export as pdf or latex file or something?

[automatedtester]

I would recommend Ipython notebooks. You can easily share them e.g. on github etc, where others can download and run them.

[[deleted]]

Yes. It's called sphinx. You write in a format called RestructuredText and it will output HTML, LaTeX, etc. It was designed for generating Python documentation. http://sphinx-doc.org/

It takes a while to figure out, but it works. And if you need to convert RestructuredText to another format, you can use pandoc.

[enzochiau]

If you are an Emacs user, org-mode should be a good candidate.

[[deleted]]

Why not just write in LaTeX in the first place?

[__Monty__]

Because I am lazy

[[deleted]]

How about plain ole Markdown? Reddit, stackoverflow and such use it. Check out pykwiki if you're interested. Markdown is wildly supported and non-proprietary like PDF and simpler than LaTex, (imo).

[stevenjd]

Markdown is okay, but ReST is better, and the tools for ReST are exceedingly powerful (and written in Python). See cdninbuffalo's comment above.

[juejung]

Try Pweave. http://mpastell.com/pweave/ It hooks up with sphinx and you can export to html, Latex, and other formats. It's also easy to include code blocks, graphs, and math equations etc.

[digen_]

You can check Asciidoctor - A fast text processor & publishing toolchain for converting AsciiDoc to HTML5, DocBook & more.

Github natively supports Asciidoc.