bibtex parsing

[Alan G Isaac]

Can anyone recommend a pure Python parser
of BibTeX files? Ideally MIT or BSD licensed?

Online search some possibilities:
http://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/...sers/bibtex.py
http://www.geocities.com/fiolj/bibtexparse.html
http://www.cis.udel.edu/~sprenkle/bi.../bibtex2xml.py
Despite the current licenses, I'd appreciate info on these too.

Also, there was a rumor that PyParsing was to become
part of the standard library, but I do not see it at
http://docs.python.org/modindex.html
False rumor? Has anyone tried parsing BibTeX with PyParsing?

Thanks,
Alan Isaac

[Robert Kern]

Alan G Isaac wrote:

Also, there was a rumor that PyParsing was to become
part of the standard library, but I do not see it at
http://docs.python.org/modindex.html
False rumor?

False rumor.

--
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco

[Paul McGuire]

On Oct 17, 4:18*pm, Alan G Isaac <[e-mail]:

Can anyone recommend a pure Python parser
of BibTeX files? Ideally MIT or BSD licensed?

Online search some possibilities:

http://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/.../trunk/bibliog...
http://www.geocities.com/fiolj/bibtexparse.html
http://www.cis.udel.edu/~sprenkle/bi.../bibtex2xml.py

Despite the current licenses, I'd appreciate info on these too.

Also, there was a rumor that PyParsing was to become
part of the standard library, but I do not see it at
http://docs.python.org/modindex.html
False rumor? *Has anyone tried parsing BibTeX with PyParsing?

Thanks,
Alan Isaac

Visit the pyparsing wiki for all sorts of applications. Here is
a BibTeX parser submitted by pyparsing wiki user ero-sennin:
http://pyparsing.wikispaces.com/Whos...parsing#pybtex
I don't know what the license is.

Can't help you on the rumor front though. I should hope I'd hear
about
this sooner or later. I'm more than willing for this to happen, but I
fear that the API includes some features that are novel to Python,
perhaps
even bordering on UnPythonic, and so may skewer any plans for stdlib
inclusion.

-- Paul

[Alan G Isaac]

On 10/17/2008 6:14 PM Paul McGuire apparently wrote:

Visit the pyparsing wiki for all sorts of applications. Here is
a BibTeX parser submitted by pyparsing wiki user ero-sennin:
http://pyparsing.wikispaces.com/Whos...parsing#pybtex
I don't know what the license is.

GPL unfortunately.
Thanks!
Alan

[Paul McGuire]

On Oct 17, 6:43*pm, Alan G Isaac <[e-mail]:

On 10/17/2008 6:14 PM Paul McGuire apparently wrote:

Visit the pyparsing wiki for all sorts of applications. *Here is
a BibTeX parser submitted by pyparsing wiki user ero-sennin:
http://pyparsing.wikispaces.com/Whos...parsing#pybtex
I don't know what the license is.

GPL unfortunately.
Thanks!
Alan

The author might consider another license, it couldn't hurt to ask.

-- Paul