Alfred2 workflow for texdoc

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texdoc.alfredworkflow

texdoc.py

query = "{query}"

import subprocess
import os
from xml.etree import ElementTree
from xml.etree.ElementTree import Element
from xml.etree.ElementTree import SubElement

out = []
files = []


def file_xml(path):
    item = Element('item', arg=path, type='file', valid='YES')
    SubElement(item, 'title').text = os.path.basename(path)
    SubElement(item, 'subtitle').text = os.path.dirname(path)
    SubElement(item, 'icon', type='fileicon').text = path
    return item

# Try collecting output from texdoc
try:
    out = subprocess.check_output(['/usr/texbin/texdoc', '-l', '-M', query],
                                  env={'PATH': '/usr/texbin'})
except:
    raise

try:
    files = [line.split('\t')[2] for line in out.rstrip().split('\n')]
except IndexError:
    pass

# Create XML tree
items = Element('items')
items_elements = [file_xml(path) for path in files]
[items.insert(idx, element) for idx, element in enumerate(items_elements)]

print('<?xml version="1.0"?>')
print(ElementTree.tostring(items))