es­capeTeXt – Make plain text safe for use in LaTeX

This pro­gram mas­sages plain text to make it more likely to safely pass through LaTeX.
It can be run from the com­mand line, so you can do drive-by LaTeXing. The in­ter­nal rou­tines can also be im­ported for use by other Python pro­grams, for in­stance one that makes doc­u­ments from text gath­ered on a web form.