bibCombiner.py

'''
Quick hack to combine two BibTeX files with truly indentical entries
into one monolithic file.
 
Someone else could write an argparse interface to make this more reusable.
For now, I just need to get back to work.
'''
from bibtexparser.bparser import BibTexParser
 
with open('math.bib', 'r') as bibfile:
        math = BibTexParser(bibfile)
with open('neural.bib', 'r') as bibfile:
        neural = BibTexParser(bibfile)
total = dict(neural.get_entry_dict())
total.update(math.get_entry_dict())
 
newContent = u''
for i in total.items():
    j = i[1]
    t = j.pop('type')
    item = '@%s{%s,\n' % (t, i[0])
    for fixup in 'title', 'abstract':
        if fixup in j:
            j[fixup] = '{%s}' % j[fixup]
    for k in j.items():
        item += '    %s = {%s},\n' % (k[0], k[1])
    item += '}\n\n'
    newContent += item
 
newFileName = 'mathNeural.bib'
with open(newFileName, 'w') as newFile:
    newFile.write(newContent.encode('utf8'))
    print "wrote", newFileName