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Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 10:51:31 -0700
From: Dave Curtis <davecurtis AT sonic DOT net>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] libgeda Python bindings?
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On 07/10/2013 04:01 AM, Stefan Salewski wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-07-09 at 22:16 -0700, Dave Curtis wrote:
>> I know this gets asked periodically, but a search of the archives only
>> turned up a couple of messages from about a year ago.
>>
>> Has anyone ever done a set of Python bindings for libgeda?  Or a Python
>> interface to .sch files?
>>
>> -dave
> There was a rudimentary Python gschem clone long long time ago -- I can
> not remember its name, maybe pschem? But I guess it did not use libgeda
> bindings, and work was not continued, same as that HTLM5 gschem clone.
> And I have to admit that I have not touched my peted Ruby clone for last
> too years also...
>
> May I ask what your desire for Python bindings is?
>
Well, I did my simple little cross-referencer script by doing the bare 
minimum analysis of the .sch
file.  For something that simple, that works out, but that approach 
doesn't scale.  If I wanted to do something more involved it would be 
nice to have a parser.

Really this is just speculation at this point.