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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Proposal:

Are you ok with licensing this work under GPL?  If so, can we check these into a
contrib directory or something, as part of the tree, along with a readme.txt or
readme.html file?

(Although I think that posting which talks about the %B etc, is close to what
might be good enough.)

If OK, let us know.  You can always change them later, as can anyone.

I'm not saying that they'd get installed as part of Kicad, but they should be in
the tree for someone to learn from and modify.  And then if enough folks want
them in the install, that seems easy enough in the future.

Any one object?

I'd like to see a growing body of work evolve out of the xml based generic
netlist export file.  I have a Java based BOM generator now, that I would ditch
in favor of a python version if it did what I want.  So I see perhaps several
alternative implementations evolve from yours in here.

Dick





On 08/31/2011 05:11 PM, Brian Sidebotham wrote:
> On 31 August 2011 22:42, Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Your best bet is to take a look at the generic netlist export, which is in XML.
>>> That format we hope to preserve, while the world around it might morph, for good
>>> cause.
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg00531.html
>>
>>
>> Brian, where did we ever put your python generic netlist post-processor?
>>
>> I could not find that on the mailing list.
>>
>> Dick
> Hi Dick,
>
> I just had a look on that mailing list archive, but it is messed up.
> That was the right thread, but that mail archive does not match the
> mail archive I have on my machine!
>
> Anyway, I have re-attached the last python BOM scripts I did, and
> below is a copy of the email:
>
> It should be noted, as I've just looked that these are not Python 3.x
> compatible due to the print statements. Print in 3.x is now a
> function.
>
> ----------------------------
> Hi Guys,
>
> I have attached a first effort for some python scripts. Still some
> work to do, but there are some example BOM generators which create
> list, csv and html versions of a BOM.
>
> The code should work with anything above python 2.3 (including 3.x) so
> we shouldn't have any issues with python versions. The main stumbling
> block appears to be string formatting. The % method is soon to be
> deprecated in the 3.x series of python. V2.7 is apparently going to be
> the last version in the 2.x series. Development will now only
> concentrate on the 3.x series.
>
> The reader I implemented creates a complete netlist tree in RAM, so
> everything is available to do with what you want.
>
> The examples start easy, and get more complex:
>
> bom_example1.py - Create a simple list, one component per line, tab
> delimited (similar to kicad original BOM output)
> bom_example2.py - As above, but CSV output, suitable for open office
> or excel, etc.
> bom_example3.py - As (2), but with components grouped by matching
> values + library parts
> bom_example4.py - As (3), but HTML format instead
> bom_example5.py - Demonstration of a more sophisticated method of
> output formatting and grouping technique
>
> There is definitely some more testing to do, and probably some more
> tidying up and what not, but attached is where it's currently at.
>
> All comments and suggestions welcome as always.
>
> I have been using the following plugin command: python
> /path/to/example/script.py %I example.lst, csv, htm, etc.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Brian.