#! /usr/bin/env python
from __future__ import print_function

import datetime
import os
import sys
import json
import uuid

if len(sys.argv) > 1:
    sys.stderr.write("Usage: python "+sys.argv[0]+" 'command-invocation'"+'\n')
    sys.exit(1)

def get_year():
    now = datetime.datetime.now()
    return now.year

def get_username():
    try:
        # POSIX only
        import pwd
        gecos_field =  pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid()).pw_gecos
        full_name = gecos_field.split(',')[0]
        return full_name
    except ImportError:
        import getpass
        return getpass.getuser()

new_uuid = str(uuid.uuid4())

equajson = \
{
    "copying": {
        "authors": [
            get_username()
        ],
        "license-name": "MIT (Expat) License",
        "license-url": "http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT",
        "year": get_year(),
    },
    "description": {
        "verbose": "<FIXME>",
        "terse": "<FIXME>",
    },
    "markup-languages": {
        "LaTeX": [
            {
                "markup": "<FIXME>"
            }
        ]
    },
    "relevant-urls": [
        {
            "url": "<FIXME>"
        }
    ],
    "unicode-pretty-print": {
        "multiline": [
            "<FIXME>",
            "<FIXME>",
            "<FIXME>",
        ],
        "one-line": "<FIXME>",
        "parameters": {
            "<FIXME>" : {
                "label": "<FIXME>",
                "dimensionless": "<FIXME>",
                "fixed-constant": "<FIXME>",
                "urls": [
                    "<FIXME>"
                ]
            },
            "<FIXME>" : {
                "label": "<FIXME>",
                "dimensionless": "<FIXME>",
                "fixed-constant": "<FIXME>",
                "urls": [
                    "<FIXME>"
                ]
            }
        }
    },
    "uuid": new_uuid
}

root = sys.path[0]
new_filename = new_uuid + '.json'
new_filepath = os.path.join(root, 'equajson', new_filename)
with open(new_filepath, 'w') as new_file:
    json.dump(equajson, new_file, indent=4, separators=(',', ': '), sort_keys=True)
    print('Created new equation:\n{}'.format(new_filepath))

Add an equation generator script.
Add an equation generator script.
