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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/1/2011 1:28 AM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
> 
> 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?

Sounds reasonable to me.

Wayne

> 
> 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.
> 
> 
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