1 # gaf.netlist - gEDA Netlist Extraction and Generation
2 # Copyright (C) 1998-2010 Ales Hvezda
3 # Copyright (C) 1998-2010 gEDA Contributors (see ChangeLog for details)
4 # Copyright (C) 2013-2020 Roland Lutz
6 # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
7 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
8 # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
9 # (at your option) any later version.
11 # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
12 # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
13 # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
14 # GNU General Public License for more details.
16 # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
17 # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
18 # Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
20 ## \namespace gaf.netlist.backend
21 ## Handling netlist backends.
23 # After the netlist has been constructed, it is passed to a \a backend
24 # which creates some kind of output based on the information in the
25 # netlist. The backend is selected by the user via the command-line
26 # option <tt>-g \a BACKEND</tt>; a list of available options can be
27 # displayed using the command-line option `--list-backends`.
29 # A backend is a Python file in the special backend load path whose
30 # name starts with the prefix \c "gnet_". It should contain a special
31 # function \c run(f, netlist) as the main entry point.
34 from gettext
import gettext
as _
36 ## Module name prefix for netlister backends.
38 # Only Python modules whose name starts with this prefix are
39 # considered netlister backends.
41 BACKEND_PREFIX
= 'gnet_'
45 # A list of directory names in which to search for netlister backends.
49 ## Get a sorted list of available backends.
51 # Returns a list of available netlister backends by searching for
52 # files in each of the directories given in \ref load_path. A module
53 # is considered to be a netlister backend if its name begins with
54 # \ref BACKEND_PREFIX ("gnet_").
59 for dir_name
in load_path
:
61 d_names
= os
.listdir(dir_name
)
63 sys
.stderr
.write(_("Can't open directory %s: %s\n")
64 % (dir_name
, e
.strerror
))
67 for d_name
in d_names
:
68 # Check that filename has the right format to be a backend
69 if not d_name
.startswith(BACKEND_PREFIX
):
72 for suffix
, mode
, type in imp
.get_suffixes():
73 if d_name
.endswith(suffix
, len(BACKEND_PREFIX
)):
74 # Remove prefix & suffix. Add to list of backend names.
75 backend_names
.add(d_name
[len(BACKEND_PREFIX
):-len(suffix
)])
78 return sorted(backend_names
)
80 ## Load a specific netlister backend.
82 # Searches in the backend load path for a module called \c
83 # gnet_<em>backend_name</em>, loads it, and returns the module object.
85 # The backend module's path is added to the system load path.
87 # \throws ImportError if the module could not be loaded
89 def load(backend_name
):
90 # Search for backend module in load path
91 f
, pathname
, description
= imp
.find_module(
92 BACKEND_PREFIX
+ backend_name
, load_path
)
99 sys
.path
= load_path
+ sys
.path
101 return imp
.load_module(BACKEND_PREFIX
+ backend_name
,
102 f
, pathname
, description
)
104 sys
.path
= saved_path