python bibliography manager. Newbie.

[Fernando Perez]

Harald Massa wrote:

> Bob,
> 
>>can I do this with python:-
>  
>> Take an endnote refer file or other bibliography data (TSV OVID
>> Medline etc etc etc) and load the data into a table.
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> Create a GUI for the application.
> Yes.
> 
>> ODBC link to other apps.
> Yes.
> 
>> create a stand-alone executable.
> Depends on your definition of "stand-alone". A stand-alone .exe needs some
> .PYD and .DLL, all freely distributable.
> 
> And:
> if you google for this application, I think there is a python one out there

it's called pybliographer, and it comes with a gui (pybliographic).  It knows
how to talk to lyx, so the two combined make the perfect document writing
system (note that I did NOT say word processor: lyx is not a word processor,
it's a far superior system).

best,

f.