enable excel type export of csv

[macsimski]

My fab house is soly windowz based and they have problems importing csv files from Bombs-away. Do you think it is possible to export the cv with tabs as field delimiter, quoted text and a comma and space between the multiple parts on a row

so something like
"R101, R102, R103"\tab"100K"\tab"sweeb:0603R"\tab"3"\tab"Multicomp"\tab" etc.

As the source of Bombs-away does not have a copyright header with version number, i cannot include a version number, but I downloaded it today 30-01-2017

changing
with open(base+ext, 'w') as csvfile: wrt = csv.writer(csvfile)
on row 546
to
with open(base+ext, 'w') as csvfile: wrt = csv.writer(csvfile,dialect='excel')

did not give a change.
Unfortunately, i'm not that fluent in python. :(

[macsimski]

ok. nice one. tab separated is possible with

with open(base+ext, 'w') as csvfile: wrt = csv.writer(csvfile,dialect='excel-tab')

not excel_tab as stated in the docs. read those docs really carefull. semicolon between the individual parts with the same parttype is not solved, but a simple search and replace can do it.

[Jeff-Ciesielski]

So I took a quick crack at this and I'm not convinced that I want to tie all these features into the main source code since it's pretty specific to your board house.

Looking at #24 (which is also pretty specific), I'm thinking what might be a better fit is an export plugin system (which hilariously is what this was intended to replace in KiCad itself), but at least these plugins could be in the form of a python module.

I'll take a crack at it and will see what I can come up with. Out of curiosity, what board house do you use (so that I might name the export plugin)?

[macsimski]

Cool. if you want me tor try things, just say so. My board house is electro-watt in Hilversum, the netherlands, But i think that it is not that inportant as the dialect='excel-tab' works fine here. :-)

[Jeff-Ciesielski]

Give this a go: d57404c (Should be the tip of the master branch).

[macsimski]

hmm. ImportError: No module named 'wx'

I'm looking into this as i have /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wx-3.0-gtk2 installed

[Jeff-Ciesielski]

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