The test code prints nothing

[fanchyna]

I tried the example. The RIS file content was copied into a text file. The statements are executed on the command line, but nothing prints:

>>> with open(filepath,'r') as bib_file: 
...     entries = readris(bib_file)
...     for entry in entries:
...         print(entry['id'])
...         print(entry['first_authors'])
... 
>>> 

[telukir]

Did you imported given libraries also?

[me-kell]

I can confirm that test code prints nothing. Tested on cygwin with python 2.7.14

$ pip install RISparser

$ pip list | grep "RISparser"
RISparser                          0.4.3

$ cat > test.ris<<EOF
1.
TY  - JOUR
ID  - 12345
T1  - Title of reference
A1  - Marx, Karl
A1  - Lindgren, Astrid
A2  - Glattauer, Daniel
Y1  - 2014//
N2  - BACKGROUND: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.
KW  - Pippi
KW  - Nordwind
KW  - Piraten
JF  - Lorem
JA  - lorem
VL  - 9
IS  - 3
SP  - e0815
CY  - United States
PB  - Fun Factory
PB  - Fun Factory USA
SN  - 1932-6208
M1  - 1008150341
L2  - http://example.com
ER  -
EOF

$ python
Python 2.7.14 (default, Oct 31 2017, 21:12:13)
[GCC 6.4.0] on cygwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>
>>> import os
>>> from pprint import pprint
>>> from RISparser import readris
>>> filepath = 'test.ris'
>>> with open(filepath, 'r') as bibliography_file:
...     entries = readris(bibliography_file)
...     print [i for i in entries]
...     for entry in entries:
...         print(entry)
...         print(entry['id'])
...         print(entry['first_authors'])
...
[]
>>>

[shapiromatron]

This doesn't look right, I'll take a look

[shapiromatron]

I looked into this @me-kell; my guess is the print statement is messing this up. When you print i for i in entries, it'll exhaust the iterator, so that when you try to iterate over it again, it's empty and that's why you get an empty list. If you wrap readris in a list, entries = list(readris(bibliography_file), it'll return a list of entries instead of a generator.

@fanchyna I'm not sure what is not working for you; I know that this code works because it's baked into our testing system to run the readme. Let me know if you can provide more details.