# /usr/bin/python
import os
import sys
import re

# makechecklist.py: a quick parser for a specifically-formatted LaTeX file
# that produces a nice checklist in {longtable} for the entire list.
# The list is, or should be, larger than the number of cells on any one
# bingo card, so a canonical list of the cells is useful when evaluating any
# one card.
#
# Jesse Hamner, 2016

# Functions:


def makeEntry(varname):
    """Take a nicely formatted variable (string) and write it into a LaTeX \
    [long]table cell"""
    tabline = str("$\\square$ & %s \\\\[\\sep]\n" % varname)
    return tabline


def slurpInFile(fn, theList):
    """Open an input file, parse it, ignore some fields, and nicely format the\
    remainder of the file into a long text string of LaTeX tabular fields."""
    f = open(fn, "r")
    li = f.read()
    grr = li.split("\n")
    for i in grr:
        if re.search("^%|^\s*$", i):
            continue
        elif re.match("\s*}\s*$", i):
            return theList
        else:
            mline = i.split(";")
            #            print (mline)
            for j in mline:
                if re.match("^\s*$", j):
                    continue
                j = re.sub("\\\\myItems{", "", j)
                theList = theList + makeEntry(j)

    return 0


# Main loop:

filename = "bingolist.tex"
nicetable = "% Hopefully a nice table\n\n"
nicetable = slurpInFile(filename, nicetable)

# write out the table to a file:

ofile = "checklist1.tex"
output = open(ofile, "w")
output.write(nicetable)
output.close()

# let user know:

print("wrote output to %s" % ofile)

# EOF