def get_names():
 return [n.strip() for n in codecs.open(os.path.join('data', 'names.txt'), 'rb', 'utf8').readlines()]

def get_names ( ) : return [ n . strip ( ) for n in codecs . open ( os . path . join ( 'data' , 'names.txt' ) , 'rb' , 'utf8' ) . readlines ( ) ]
work-horse function to extract all the names defined in the current bib file .