---
name: "pyreport"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "python-scitools"
version: "0.7-1"
release: "Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/pyreport"
---

# pyreport(1)

generate reports out of Python scripts

## NAME

pyreport - generate reports out of Python scripts

## SYNOPSIS

**pyreport** \[*OPTIONS*\]

## DESCRIPTION

Processes a Python script and pretty prints the results using LateX. If the script uses "show()" commands (from scitools.easyviz) they are caught by pyreport and the resulting graphs are inserted in the output pdf. Comments lines starting with "#!" are interpreted as rst lines and pretty printed accordingly in the pdf.

## OPTIONS

- **--version**

  Show program's version number and exit.

- **-h**, **--help**

  Show help message and exit.

- **-o** FILE, **--outfile**=FILE

  Write report to FILE.

- **-x**, **--noexecute**

  Do not run the code, just extract the literate comments.

- **-n**, **--nocode**

  Do not display the source code.

- **-d**, **--double**

  Compile to two columns per page (only for pdf or tex output).

- **-t** TYPE, **--type**=TYPE

  Output to TYPE, TYPE can be ps, dvi, trac, eps, tex, html, rst, moin.

- **-f** TYPE, **--figuretype**=TYPE

  Output figure type TYPE  (TYPE can be of pdf, jpg, eps, png, ps depending on report output type).

- **-c** CHAR, **--commentchar**=CHAR

  Literate comments start with "#CHAR".

- **-l**, **--latexliterals**

  Allow LaTeX literal comment lines starting with "#$".

- **-e**, **--latexescapes**

  Allow LaTeX math mode escape in code wih dollar signs.

- **-p**, **--nopyreport**

  Disallow the use of #pyreport lines in the processed file to specify options.

- **-q**, **--quiet**

  Don't print status messages to stderr.

- **-v**, **--verbose**

  Print all the message, including tex messages.

- **-s**, **--silent**

  Suppress the display of warning and errors in the report.

- **--noecho**

  Turns off the echoing of the output of the script on the standard out.

- **-a** ARGS, **--arguments**=ARGS

  Pass the arguments "ARGS" to the script.

## NOTES

This is a modified version of Gael Varoquaux's pyreport to be able to use scitools.easyviz to do the plotting. The original pyreport can be downloaded from http://gael-varoquaux.info/computers/pyreport/.

## LICENSE

pyreport is licensed under the BSD license.

## AUTHOR

pyreport was written by Gael Varoquaux \<gael.varoquaux@normalesup.org\>. This manual page was written by Johannes Ring \<johannr@simula.no\>.