This package enables you to embed Python code (www.python.org) in LaTeX and insert the output into your LaTeX document. In you LaTeX document insert: \usepackage{python} ... \begin{python}[optional.py] print("42") \end{python} The file optional.py is included together with the code between \begin{python} and \end{python}. Hence, you can extract common code to a shared file. Compile the document with the shell escape option and of course Python installed: % latex -shell-escape document.tex or insert/change "shell_escape = t" in your texmf.cnf If you have any comments, suggestions, or patches please email them to me. Please note that this material is subject to the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. See http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html for the details of that license. Martin R. Ehmsen martin@ehmsen.org