Pybtex!

Pybtex is a BibTeX-compatible bibliography processor written in Python.
You can simply type pybtex instead of bibtex.

For more details, see the Pybtex User’s Guide.

How Pybtex is different from BibTeX

Pybtex aims to be 100% compatible with BibTeX. It accepts the same command line options, fully supports BibTeX’s .bst styles and produces byte-identical output (if not, please file a bug report).

Additionally,

Pybtex is Unicode-aware.
Pybtex supports bibliography formats other than BibTeX.
It is possible to write formatting styles in Python.
As a bonus, Pythonic styles can produce HTML, Markdown and other markup besides the usual LaTeX.

Pybtex also includes a Python API for managing bibliographies from Python.

Download and install

Release tarballs are available from our PyPI page.

Pybtex can be also installed with pip:

pip install pybtex

Development sources are available from our Git repository at Bitbucket:

git clone https://bitbucket.org/pybtex-devs/pybtex

If something goes wrong, just file a bug report.

Have fun!