ReportLab numbering with nested bullet points

Question

I'm struggeling with ReportLab which I would like to use to generate a PDF as a request from Django from a view.

I try to get a numbered list with bullet points in between like that

1. Text1-blabla
   • Bullet-blabla
   • Bullet-blabla
2. Text2 blabla

But what I receive is:

1. Text1-blabla
2. • Bullet-blabla
   • Bullet-blabla
3. Text2 blabla

How can I suppres the "2." infront of the bullets or how can I skip it for that region?

This is my code

lf = ListFlowable([ ListItem(Paragraph(text1, styles["Normal"])), 
        ListFlowable([ListItem(Paragraph(text1a, styles["Normal"])), 
                    ListItem(Paragraph(text1b, styles["Normal"])),
                    ListItem(Paragraph(text1c, styles["Normal"])),
                    ListItem(Paragraph(text1d, styles["Normal"])),
                 ], bulletType='bullet', bulletFontSize= 5, bulletOffsetY= -2, leftIndent=10, start='circle'),
        ListItem(Paragraph(text2, styles["Normal"]))
        ], bulletType='1')

Thank you!

Answer 1

So what I figured out now to solve that issue is to nest it againin another ListFlowable and set there the leftIndent to '0' and the bulletColor to 'white'.

lf = ListFlowable([ 
    ListFlowable([
    ListItem(Paragraph(text1, styles["Normal"]), spaceAfter=12), 
    ListFlowable([ListItem(Paragraph(text1a, styles["Normal"])), 
                ListItem(Paragraph(text1b, styles["Normal"])),t
             ], bulletType='bullet', bulletFontSize= 5, bulletOffsetY= -2, leftIndent=10, start='circle')], bulletColor='white', leftIndent=0),
    ListItem(Paragraph(text2, styles["Normal"]), spaceBefore=12),
    ], bulletType='1', bulletFontSize= 10)

Answer 2

You can turn off the numbering for one list item by inserting the nested list into ListItem with value argument set to 0: ListFlowable([ Paragraph(...), ListItem(ListFlowable(...nested list...), value=0) ListItem(Paragraph(...), value=2) # to let the list go on ])