Tom at 17:34, 11 July 2007

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#! /usr/bin/python

## list citations script version 0.1

## Copyright 2007 Tom Brown

## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
## modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
## published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the
## License, or (at your option) any later version.

## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
## but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
## GNU General Public License for more details.

## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
## along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

## See http://www.stringwiki.org/wiki/SPIRES_script for more usage
## instructions

'''list citations script
Usage:
python listcitations.py TeX_file_name.tex [ -hbiv ] [ --help ]

TeX_file_name must contain citations as standard arXiv references,
e.g. hep-th/9711200, 0705.0303, Maldacena:1997re or SPIRES journal
references, e.g. CMPHA,43,199

Options:
-h, --help
displays this help message
-b
displays the BiBTeX entry
-i
displays the bibitem entry
-v
verbose mode
'''

__version__ = "0.1"
__author__ = "Tom Brown"
__copyright__ = "Copyright 2007 Tom Brown, GNU GPL 3"

import os, sys, spires, getopt, re

bibtexOpt = 0
bibitemOpt = 0
verboseOpt = 0

try:
options, arguments = getopt.gnu_getopt(sys.argv[1:], 'hbiv', ['help'])
except getopt.error:
print 'error: you tried to use an unknown option or the argument for an option that requires it was missing; try \'listcitations.py -h\' for more information'
sys.exit(0)

for o,a in options:
if o in ('-h','--help'):
print __doc__
sys.exit(0)

elif o == '-b':
bibtexOpt = 1

elif o == '-i':
bibitemOpt = 1

elif o == '-v':
verboseOpt = 1

if len(arguments) != 1:
print 'you didn\'t specify a TeX file; try \'listcitations.py -h\' for more information'
sys.exit(0)
else:
TeXfilename = os.path.expanduser(arguments[0])

if len(options) == 0:
bibitemOpt = 1

print TeXfilename

citations = spires.listCitations(TeXfilename)

for citation in citations:
if verboseOpt:
print citation
type,ref = spires.findRefType(citation)
if verboseOpt:
print type, ref
if bibtexOpt:
BiBTeX = spires.getBiBTeX(ref,type)
BiBTeX = re.sub('Article{[^,]*,','Article{' + citation + ',',BiBTeX)
print BiBTeX
if bibitemOpt:
bibitem = spires.getBibitem(ref,type)
bibitem = re.sub('bibitem{[^}]*}','bibitem{' + citation + '}',bibitem)
print bibitem
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Tom at 17:34, 11 July 2007