Mendeley and Latex (making the file look better and replacing 'url' and 'urldate' with 'howpublished' and 'note')

MakingRefWork_Mendeley_Latex.py

#Making latex and mendeley work together

with open('references.txt','r') as file: #EDIT FILENAME IF NEEDED. PUT IN SAME FOLDER
    D=file.readlines()

change_url=False
for i in range(len(D)):
    a=D[i]
    if a[0:5]=='@misc':
        change_url=True

    if a[0]=='@' or a[0]=='\n' or a[0]=='}\n' or a[0]=='{\n' or a[0]=='}' or a[0]=='{':
        if a=='}\n':
          change_url='False'
        continue
    
    a=a.split('=')
    a1=a[0].strip()
    a2=''
    for j in a[1:]:
        a2+=j
    a2=a2.strip()
    
    if change_url==True:
        if a1=='url':
            a1='howpublished'
            a2='{\\url'+a2[:-1]+'},'
        if a1=='urldate':
            a1='note'
            a2='{Accessed: '+a2[1:]

            
    a1=a1+' '*(14-len(a1))+'= '
    a=a1+a2+'\n'
    D[i]=a

i=0
while i<len(D):
    a=D[i]
    if a[0:15]=='mendeley-groups':
        del(D[i])
        continue
    if a[0:4]=='file':
        del(D[i])
        continue
    if a[0:8]=='abstract':
        del(D[i])
        continue          
    i+=1

with open('references.txt','w') as file:
    file.writelines(D)