# # Example python script to generate a BOM from a KiCad generic netlist # # Example: Tab delimited list (The same as std output) Ungrouped # # Import the KiCad python helper module and the csv formatter import ky_generic_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 = ky_generic_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: print >> sys.stderr, __file__, ":", e f = 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) # Output a field delimited header line out.writerow(['Source:', net.getSource()]) out.writerow(['Date:', net.getDate()]) out.writerow(['Tool:', net.getTool()]) out.writerow(['Component Count:', len(net.components)]) out.writerow(['Ref', 'Value', 'Part', 'Documentation', 'Description', 'Vendor']) # Output all of the component information for c in net.components: out.writerow([c.getRef(), c.getValue(), c.getLib() + "/" + c.getPart(), c.getDatasheet(), c.getDescription(), c.getField("Vendor")])