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Hi there,

Is there a way to use bibstuff as a pybtex backend for to generate a list of reStructuredText references from a bib file? Or can bibstuff only be used on its own?

Thanks a lot!

This module has syntax errors and won't run. It also needs better documentation of its purpose and use.

Eg pyflakes output:

pyflakes bibadd.py
bibadd.py:270: undefined name 'use_max_names'
bibadd.py:292: undefined name 'ascii_lowercase'
bibadd.py:367: undefined name 'pages'
bibadd.py:368: undefined name 'pages'
bibadd.py:409: undefined name 'volume'
bibadd.py:410: undefined name 'volume'
bibadd.py:411: undefined name 'number'
bibadd.py:412: undefined name 'volume'
bibadd.py:412: undefined name 'number'
bibadd.py:413: undefined name 'number'
bibadd.py:414: undefined name 'number'
bibadd.py:414: local variable 'volnume' is assigned to but never used
bibadd.py:440: undefined name 'journal'
bibadd.py:441: local variable 'volume' is assigned to but never used

I do have a small question and maybe request regarding simpleparse library parts of your project depend upon.
Current Python3 version of simpleparse only processes python3 unicode strings. Trying to parse binary bytes strings, eg. plain ascii or latin1 encoded strings causes an Error.
Would you see any benefit for your project if simpleparse would be able to properly parse bytes strings without being reencoded to unicode before parsing?
In case may I kindly invite you to up-vote the pullrequest mcfletch/simpleparse#15 on the simpleparse repo and maybe even comment the pull request or any related issue?

isbn2bib.py is a standalone script and I think it should be moved to the /scripts directory. But does it make sense to pull out the general functionality as a module that stays in the package? My thought is no, it introduces a dependency on pyaws. I think that the bibadd module is meant to provide the interface for adding to a bibfile, but this module is not complete, see issue #1