Python code to generate a list of labels from latex documents.

LatexLabelList.ipynb

Thanks for sharing this code!

I changed some parts in the larger part of your code to make it work with Python 3.6

# import regex instead of re
import regex

# reg exp to find full label specifications
patt = regex.compile("\\label{(\w*:\w*)}")
# reg exp to find `addtotoc` labels
app_patt = re.compile("(\w+:\w+)")

lbls = []
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(chdir):
    for fn in files: 
        if fn == 'main.tex':
            # my project has some appendices that are pulled into
            # the project using includepdf and the labels for these
            # are specified using `addtotoc`. This if statement
            # finds those labels in main.tex.
            with open(os.path.join(root, fn),encoding="Latin-1") as f:
                lbls.extend(re.findall(app_patt, f.read()))
        elif fn.endswith(".tex"):
            # there's a template file in my project that I don't
            # want to search for labels.
            with open(os.path.join(root,fn),encoding="Latin-1") as f:
                txt = f.read()
                labels = regex.findall(patt, txt)
                lbls.extend(labels)
typs = []
names = []
for lbl in lbls:
    t, n = lbl.split(':')
    typs.append(t)
    names.append(n)