notstring

import sys, re, argparse, string, codecs

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument("citearg", help="the file containing the citations from footnotes etc.")
parser.add_argument("refarg", help="the file containing reference list")
manuFiles = parser.parse_args()


def makeCorpoi(citefile, reffile):
    citebox = open(citefile, 'r')
    refbox = open(reffile, 'r')
    citecorpus = citebox.read()
    refcorpus = refbox.read()
    citebox.close()
    refbox.close()
    corpoi = [str(citecorpus), str(refcorpus)]
    return corpoi

def conv2ASCII(bigstring): 
	def convHandler(error):
		return ('1FOREIGN', error.start + 1)
	codecs.register_error('foreign', convHandler)
	bigstring = bigstring.encode('ascii', 'foreign')
	return bigstring
	# stringstring = str(bigstring)
	# return stringstring

def makeCiteList(citefile):
    citepattern = r'[\s(][A-Z1][A-Za-z1]*-?[A-Za-z1]*[ ,]? \(?\d\d\d\d[a-z]?[\s.,)]'
    rawCitelist = re.findall(citepattern, citefile)
    cleanCitelist = cleanup(rawCitelist)
    finalCiteList = list(set(cleanCitelist))
    return(finalCiteList)

def checkCites(citefile, reffile):
    corpoi = makeCorpoi(citefile, reffile)
    citecorpus = corpoi[0]
    citecorpus = conv2ASCII(citecorpus)
    citelist = makeCiteList(citecorpus)
    # and a bunch of irrelevant stuff