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[Senthil Seveelavanan <s.seveelavanan@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Adam,

Great. I use Ubuntu also.

Thanks and eagerly awaiting your PPA!

Senthil


On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Senthil,
>
> The module is created when you compile from source.  I'm working on an
> Ubuntu PPA with scripting support.  It worked a while ago, but I have to
> update it to match some changes in the source.  I'll be posting to this
> list when it's ready.
>
> Adam Wolf
> Wayne and Layne, LLC
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Senthil Seveelavanan <
> s.seveelavanan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> 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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