minimal-bibtex-io-sebastian-achim-mueller 0.0.3

Functions

Example

import minimal_bibtex_io as mbib

# Read bytes, make no assumptions on keys or encoding
with open("minimal_bibtex_io/tests/resources/example.bib", "rb") as f:
    rawbib = mbib.loads(f.read())

# Try to decode to ascii and set keys to lower case
bib = mbib.normalize(rawbib)

entry = {"type": "book", "citekey": "kasperle1887", "fields": {}}
entry["fields"]["title"] = "The hills are green"
entry["fields"]["year"] = 1887
entry["fields"]["whateverkeyiwant"] = "This is only relevant for me."
bib["entries"].append(entry)

# eventually ...
with open("my.bib", "wt") as f:
    f.write(mbib.dumps(bib, indent=4, width=79))