Generates publication lists from JSON data and mustache templates

pubgen.py

import json
import pystache

# read template
template = open('template.mustache','r').read()

# ignore line breaks and parse \n instead
template = ''.join(template.splitlines()).decode('string_escape')

# load publications JSON
publications = json.load(open('publications.json','r'))

# render
f = open('rendered.txt','w')
for publication in publications:
    # generate authors list from json array
    authors = ''
    for author in publication['author']:
        authors += author['firstName'] + " " + author['lastName'] + ", "
    publication['authors'] = authors[:-2]

    f.write(pystache.render(template, publication).encode('utf8'))