[pyblio-devel] Simplification(?) of python-bibtex and moving to Unicode

[Germán Poo-C. <gp...@gn...>]

Hi,

As part of moving everything to UTF-8 (and prepare the support for both
Python 2.7 and Python >= 3.4 at some point) I started to work on a "new"
API for python-bibtex.

So, far I have implemented an object that can be instantiated like:

        import bibtex
        
        db = bibtex.new_from_file('my-file.bib', strictness=False)
        
        for entry in db:
        	do_something_with_every_entry()

It is basically a wrapper on the functions that already exists.

I think it is simpler than the old way.  Besides this, instead of using
PyString_FromString I would use PyUnicode_FromString, and provide
unicode support from closer to the actual data.  That would remove the
need for encode/decode inside pybliographer in most of the code.

In addition, there are some functions that are public in the current
_bibtex, but I think those are too low level for what could be use. For
example, get_offset and set_offset.

I would like to expose BibtexEntry in a similar way, if that would make
sense.

My idea is to make use of bibtex (or any other module name), instead of
_bibtex, which usually is for internal modules (AFAIU).  That would
benefit other developers, I would expect.

Thoughts?

-- 
Germán Poo-Caamaño
http://calcifer.org/