Generator for WinShell project files (.wsp) Copy this into your LaTeX project and run _python gen_wsp.py main_document.tex_. This will create a project file named main_document.wsp that contains the main_document.tex and all other tex files in the same or any subdirectory.

gen_wsp.py

import sys
import os
import string

PREFIX = '.tex'

def main(args):
    try:
        main_document = args[1] # [1] might be machine-specific
        print main_document, '\n'
        
        output_file = string.split(main_document, '.')[0] + '.wsp'
        
        with open(output_file, 'w') as f:
            
            f.write('[main]\n')
            f.write('.\\%s\n' % main_document)
            f.write('\n')
            f.write('[texfiles]\n')
            
            # TODO: use walk instead of listdir
            for item in os.listdir('.'):
                if item.endswith(PREFIX) and not (item == main_document):
                    print item
                    
                    f.write('.\\%s\n' % item)
                    
            f.close()
    except:
        # error handling code here
        return 1  # exit on error
    else:
        return 0  # exit errorlessly
 
if __name__ == '__main__':
    sys.exit(main(sys.argv))