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Is possible to use LaTeX macros in pythonTeX pyblock environment and use/store theyre output on python side of pythonTeX?

Following MWE should completely illustrate my question:

\documentclass[11pt]{article}

\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\usepackage{pythontex}

\begin{document}

\begin{pyblock}
mytext = \lipsum[4]
print(mytext)
\end{pyblock}

\printpythontex
\end{document}

For document compilation I am using LuaLatex, so making this possible with lua as "middle man" wuold be for me perfectly acceptable.

Note: Apparently python is interpretting \ as line continuation character, naively trying to escape it \\ led to no success ...

Tomáš Kruliš
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The PythonTeX environments (pyblock and pycode) do not support LaTeX macros. The commands (\pyb and \pyc) do, however, so something like this might be an option:

\pyc{mytext = """\lipsum[4]"""}

\begin{pyblock}
print(mytext)
\end{pyblock}

It should be possible to create an environment that would expand macros and then pass the result on to PythonTeX. I've never really looked into that since the commands do expand macros and since an environment that expands macros could involve a lot of extra escaping between Python and LaTeX.

G. Poore
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