BUG: Wrong Latex Encoding · Issue #20859 · pandas-dev/pandas (original) (raw)

Assume a DataFrame df that looks like this:

|      A      | B | ... |
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|    a\b\c    | 2 | ... |
|    p\y\c    | 9 | ... |
|    a\d\x    | 4 | ... |

Calling to_latex on this DataFrame returns strings like a\textbackslashb\textbackslashc, what obviously is an error for LaTeX. Expected and correct is a\textbackslash b\textbackslash c.

Tried with current master 0.23.0.dev0+808.gd92d76e.dirty as well as with release 0.22.0.

Using escape=False returns a\b\c what is also an error for LaTeX (but expected).
So there is no way currently to get valid LaTeX code from a DataFrame like this.