latex() in sympy. How to get \frac and not \\frac

Question

from sympy import *

x, alpha = symbols('x alpha')

latex(alpha/x)

Out[1]: '\\frac{\\alpha}{x}'

That doesn't work in latex. What do I do to get the proper output, i.e.: '\frac{\alpha}{x}' ?

Answer 1

That is correct an output (repr escape some characters, \ in this case.). Try to print it.

>>> x = '\\frac{\\alpha}{x}'
>>> x
'\\frac{\\alpha}{x}'
>>> print(x)
\frac{\alpha}{x}

Answer 2

Got it!

Write:

print latex(alpha/x)
\frac{\alpha}{x}

Sorry about bothering you guys!