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All,
Thank you for your comments.

Vladimir Zhbanov (vzhbanov AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> Apropos, I would recommend to switch to the spice-noqsi backend
> rather than spice-sdb.  Spice-noqsi is more versatile and has a
> very nice tutorial [1].  It's included in Lepton, of course.
I will take a look at this and see if it is a closer starting point for
where I want to end up than spice-sdb. Thanks for pointing me to the
docs for it. As I said in the write up for the patch I am just learning
scheme. Actually I am only learning it for this project, so I don't
really have a preference as far as that goes. I am currently leaning to
the python approach though as I was going to have to pick it up anyway
as what I have in mind will require some changes to the netlister frontend.

Roland Lutz wrote:
> thank you for your contribution!  I applied your patch to the `master'
> branch.
>
> As you may be aware, gEDA/gaf is in a transition from legacy Guile
> netlist backends to Python netlist backends.  I applied your change to
> the corresponding new backend (gnet_spice_sdb.py):
<snip>
> For new contributions, the preferred way is changing the Python
> backends directly (though simple changes to the Guile backends are
> accepted, as well).
>
> Roland
Roland,
Thanks for making the python change (and explaining it)  as well as
applying my little scheme change. I have already made an additional
change to the spice-title code which allows the optional use of the
".TITLE" spice command. It is currently in scheme so I guess I will hold
off on posting it until I pickup enough python to make the change there
as well. As I said above I was going to have to learn python anyway for
some other changes I am thinking about.

Glenn