bibpy.tools module

A collection of functionality for bibpy’s accompanying tools.

bibpy.tools.always_false(value)

A function that always returns False.

bibpy.tools.always_true(value)

A function that always returns True.

bibpy.tools.close_output_handles()

Ensure we close stdout and stderr when piping.

bibpy.tools.compose_predicates(predicates, pred_combiner)

Return a function that composes all the given predicates.

bibpy.tools.format_version(version)

Format a version number used by bibpy’s accompanying tools.

bibpy.tools.get_abspath_for(curpath, path)

Return the absolute path for a path relative to a current path.

bibpy.tools.iter_files(names, pattern, recursive)

Yield all files matching a specific file pattern in a directory.

bibpy.tools.read_files(program_name, paths, processor, args)

Read files from some paths and apply a processor function to each.