inline python code not interpreting

[combiz]

I've used this pattern extensively with rmarkdown, but the output isn't as expected with quarto:

e.g.
"The data frame contains python len(df) rows."

This simply outputs the same line with code highlighted, instead of interpreting the python command. Any ideas?

[rgaiacs]

Thanks for the question @combiz .

As far as I know, knitr and rmarkdown only support inline code in the R language.

Consider the follow minimal working .Rmd file

---
title: "Untitled"
author: "Raniere Silva"
date: "2022-12-06"
output: html_document
---

Foo `r 1 + 1`

Bar `python 1 + 1`

The output of rmarkdown::render('mwe.Rmd', 'md_document') is

Foo 2

Bar `python 1 + 1`

As mentioned in StackOverflow, you can use the reticulate package to have inline code access to Python variables.

[cscheid]

Yes, unfortunately that inline syntax isn't supported by Jupyter, and we at Quarto are waiting for a portable solution across engines.

In this case, you can use jupyter's computational Markdown cells instead, and output the entire paragraph at execution time:

```{python}
from IPython.display import display, Markdown
foo = 5
display(Markdown('A paragraph, and a variable `foo` with value `%s`.' % foo'))
```

(I haven't tested this one so I might have the syntax slightly wrong, but hopefully the gist is clear.)

[combiz]

Thank you both @rgaiacs @cscheid, these suggestions are helpful.

[cderv]

FWIW There has been a recent addition for this in 1.4 : #6190