Skip to content

⚡ Optimize bibtex-compatibility.py regex and string search performance #16

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Merged
k4rtik merged 1 commit into from
Mar 13, 2026
Merged

⚡ Optimize bibtex-compatibility.py regex and string search performance #16

Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
1 commit
Select commit
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
26 changes: 14 additions & 12 deletions bibtex-compatibility.py
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -25,34 +25,36 @@
old_db = open(db_name + ".bib","r")
new_db = open("bibtex.bib","w")

for line in old_db.readlines():
date_pattern = re.search(r"date.*{(\d+)-?(\d+)?.*}",line)
date_re = re.compile(r"date.*{(\d+)-?(\d+)?.*}")

for line in old_db:
date_pattern = date_re.search(line)
if date_pattern:
new_db.write(" year = {{{0:s}}},\n".format(date_pattern.group(1)))
# print " year = {{{0:s}}},\n".format(date_pattern.group(1)),
if date_pattern.group(2) is not None:
month = month_names[int(date_pattern.group(2))];
new_db.write(" month = {},\n".format(month))
elif re.search("journaltitle",line):
elif "journaltitle" in line:
new_db.write(line.replace("journaltitle","journal"))
elif re.search("location",line):
elif "location" in line:
new_db.write(line.replace("location","address"))
elif re.search("eprinttype",line):
elif "eprinttype" in line:
new_db.write(line.replace("eprinttype","archiveprefix"))
# the following change is not suitable for techreports
# elif re.search("institution",line):
# elif "institution" in line:
# new_db.write(line.replace("institution","school"))
elif re.search("@online",line):
elif "@online" in line:
new_db.write(line.replace("@online","@unpublished"))
elif re.search("@report",line):
elif "@report" in line:
new_db.write(line.replace("@report","@techreport"))
elif re.search("@inbook",line):
elif "@inbook" in line:
new_db.write(line.replace("@inbook","@incollection"))
elif re.search("@collection",line):
elif "@collection" in line:
new_db.write(line.replace("@collection","@book"))
elif re.search("@thesis{Singhal2020",line):
elif "@thesis{Singhal2020" in line:
new_db.write(line.replace("@thesis","@mastersthesis"))
elif re.search("@thesis",line):
elif "@thesis" in line:
new_db.write(line.replace("@thesis","@phdthesis"))
else:
new_db.write(line)
Expand Down
Loading