Re: Parsing of Names

> Below, I have a sample of code that reads a BibTeX file, and breaks the
> data into fields and values. Is there an easy method that is built into
> pybliographer to parse the text of names? I'd like each person's first
> and last name. (And does this code look on track, or am I doing this the
> hard way?)

I might be missing something, but why aren't you using the
BibTeX.Reader class directly? BTW, it has some heuristics to split
author names.

>
> Thanks for any pointers,
>
> -Doug
>
> def parseBibtex(udir, filename, fields):
>      """ Pass in directory, filename, and list of valid fields. """
>      from Pyblio.Parsers.Syntax.BibTeX.Parser import read, Comment,
> Record, Join, Block, ATComment
>      from Pyblio.Exceptions import ParserError
>      fd =3D open(udir + "/" + filename, "r")
>      try:
>          records =3D read(fd)
>      except ParserError, err:
>          print "ERROR: %s at line %d: %s" % (file, err[0], err[1])
>          return
>      for rec in records:
>          data =3D []
>          if type(rec) =3D=3D Comment:
>              pass # just a comment
>          elif type(rec) =3D=3D ATComment:
>              pass
>          elif type(rec) =3D=3D Record:
>              for pair in rec.fields:
>                  field, value =3D pair
>                  field =3D field.strip().lower()
>                  if type(value) =3D=3D Join:
>                      for part in value:
>                          if type(part) =3D=3D Block:
>                              if field not in fields:
>                                  print p("Unknown field: %s" % field)
>                                  continue
>                              if field =3D=3D "author" or field =3D=3D "ed=
itor":
>                                  # FIX: break value into names
>                              else: # other than author
>                                  data.append((field, part.flat()))
>                          else: # other than block
>                              data.append((field, part.flat()))
>                  else: # other than join
>                      data.append((field, value.flat()))
>          else:
>              print p("Unknown record type: %s" % type(rec))
>          # do something with data
>     # return something
>
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