How can I use pandoc after "pip install"-ing it?

[Zixu-Toby-He]

I have already had a python interperater on my Windows 11 computer, and several sites told me to pip install pandoc to obtain a copy, so as I did. But after that no site tells me how I can use it properly under python environment. They only gives pandoc xxx -o xxx something like this.
The problem is that pandoc is a python package rather than a program in my computer. How can I use it to convert my "thesis.tex" into "thesis.docx" using the package on python? Or should I get a software version, too?

[Zixu-Toby-He]

Moreover, my thesis.tex has several "\include{part-file-number.tex}" and "\input{part-file-number.tex}"; does pandoc support this?

[jgm]

Yes, pandoc's LaTeX reader supports \include. I can't comment on pip install pandoc; I don't know what that would do, but someone else may be able to help.

[alerque]

Edit: As @wlupton points out the package you installed is just a library and does not install a wrapper binary. The tip I gave only applies to packages that include the binary and a wrapper to call it. There may or may not be such a package for Pandoc.

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I'm probably now have a copy of pandoc but it is buried in your Python site-packages directory. You could probably locate it and make it more accessible with something like this (bash):

local pypath="$(python -c "import site; print(site.getsitepackages()[0]+'/bin')")"
PATH="$PATH:$pypath"

[Zixu-Toby-He]

The code you show is just adding python to PATH, which I did when I installed python.

[wlupton]

https://pypi.org/project/pandoc says it's just a python library and that you need to install pandoc separately.

[Zixu-Toby-He]

Oh thank you very much. It helps a lot.