# # Example python script to generate a BOM from a KiCad generic netlist # """ @package Generate a BOM list file. Components are sorted by ref One component per line Fields are (if exist) Ref, Quantity, value, Part, footprint, Description, Vendor Fields are separated by tabs """ from __future__ import print_function # Import the KiCad python helper module and the csv formatter import kicad_netlist_reader import csv import sys # Generate an instance of a generic netlist, and load the netlist tree from # the command line option. If the file doesn't exist, execution will stop net = kicad_netlist_reader.netlist(sys.argv[1]) # Open a file to write to, if the file cannot be opened output to stdout # instead try: f = open(sys.argv[2], 'w') except IOError: e = "Can't open output file for writing: " + sys.argv[2] print(__file__, ":", e, sys.stderr) f = sys.stdout # Create a new csv writer object to use as the output formatter, although we # are created a tab delimited list instead! out = csv.writer(f, lineterminator='\n', delimiter='\t', quoting=csv.QUOTE_NONE) # override csv.writer's writerow() to support utf8 encoding: def writerow( acsvwriter, columns ): utf8row = [] for col in columns: txt=str(col); utf8row.append( txt ) acsvwriter.writerow( utf8row ) components = net.getInterestingComponents() # Output a field delimited header line writerow( out, ['Source:', net.getSource()] ) writerow( out, ['Date:', net.getDate()] ) writerow( out, ['Tool:', net.getTool()] ) writerow( out, ['Component Count:', len(components)] ) writerow( out, ['Ref', 'Value', 'Part', 'Footprint', 'Description', 'Vendor'] ) # Output all of the component information for c in components: writerow( out, [c.getRef(), c.getValue(), c.getLibName() + ":" + c.getPartName(), c.getFootprint(), c.getDescription(), c.getField("Vendor")])