kinparse 1.2.4

Parser for KiCad schematic netlists.

This is a parser for KiCad V5 through V9 schematic netlist files that are output by EESCHEMA. Just pass a file containing a netlist to the parse_netlist() function and it will deliver a pyparsing object containing all the netlist’s information.

• Free software: MIT license

• Documentation: http://devbisme.github.io/kinparse

History

1.2.4 (2025-06-25)

• Fixed to handle KiCad V9 netlist files.

1.2.3 (2025-02-01)

• Fixed to handle textvar fields in KiCad V8 netlist files.

1.2.2 (2024-09-22)

• Updated to handle KiCad V8 netlist files.

1.2.1 (2023-10-12)

• Ignore future module ImportError exception that aborts execution with Python 3.12.

1.2.0 (2022-11-7)

• Updated to handle exclude_from_bom in KiCad V6 netlist files.

1.1.0 (2022-03-23)

• Updated to handle both KiCad V5 and V6 netlist files.

1.0.0 (2021-09-17)

• Decided this tool was mature enough that it could be called 1.0.0.

0.1.2 (2019-02-23)

• Files are now opened with latin_1 encoding to allow special symbols used by KiCad.

0.1.1 (2019-01-28)

• Fixed problem where sheetpath.names and sheetpath.tstamps were not retrievable.

0.1.0 (2019-01-24)

• Restructured the parser to make it work with the current version of pyparsing.

0.0.5 (2018-12-30)

• Restricted pyparsing package to version < 2.3.0 because that one started breaking things.

0.0.4 (2018-08-27)

• KiCad V5 started putting description fields in component libsource.

0.0.3 (2018-02-14)

• Non-numeric revision is now allowed in the netlist rev field.

0.0.2 (2017-12-21)

• Fixed parse errors caused by fields with labels but no data like “(date)” .

0.0.1 (2017-07-12)

• First release on PyPI.