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[Senthil Seveelavanan <s.seveelavanan@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Dick,

The link you provided looks in the right direction... but I am still
confused:

Is the script shown '*Example that loads a board, hides all values, shows
all references' *run from independent of a running instance of kicad, or
does the script require 'kicad with scripting support' (which I understand
needs to be compiled from source and sounds too scary for me)?... where is
the python module 'pcb new': the scripts refer to a python file pcbnew (
from pcbnew import *)? I cannot find it from browsing the source.

Thanks again and sorry for the frustrating/noob questions

Senthil

On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> www.kicad-pcb.org/display/KICAD/KiCad+Scripting+Reference+Manual
> On Mar 28, 2013 2:04 PM, "Senthil Seveelavanan" <s.seveelavanan@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> ... Also I am looking at the output of a simple pcb layout.
>>
>> here is the top 3 lines
>>
>> (kicad_pcb
>>   (version 3)
>>   (host pcbnew "(2013-03-19 BZR 4004)-stable")
>>
>>
>> I am new to s-expressions: Why are some of the strings surrounded by
>> quotes "..." and some are not? Do the strings without quotation marks mean
>> variable or similar?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Senthil Seveelavanan <
>> s.seveelavanan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Does any python code exist to assist the parsing of the new .kicad_pcb
>>> pcbnew s-expression based file format? I want to write a simple script to
>>> get/set the placement of tracks/vias etc.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Senthil
>>>
>>
>>
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