In a recent thread <https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg31700.html> on this list, it was mentioned that kicad may need to drop support for SWIG/Python due to wx and wxPython limitations.
Perhaps I misinterpreted what was said. It's my perception that the kicad team doesn't see the value in a python interface that I see <https://kicad.mmccoo.com/2017/01/26/real-scripting-the-most-important-feature-a-tool-can-have/>. Perhaps I'm wrong in that too Anyway, I have a version of kicad working with wxPython 4.0 (AKA Phoenix) A more detailed summary can be read here on my blog <https://kicad.mmccoo.com/2017/11/23/learnings-from-moving-kicad-to-wxpython-4-0/> and a diff file of my changes is here: http://mmccoo.com/random/diffs_for_phoenix The short version: Kicad will probably want to wait to move to the Phoenix version of wxPython. The main issue is that the Phoenix equivalent of wx/wxPython/wxPython.h (called from pcbnew/swig/python_scripting.h) exists, but isn't in the releases yet. See here <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/wxpython-users/rIwPMKjQBeI>. Beyond that, I had some difficulties ensuring that the correct wx and wxPython versions are installed and used[1] Once I did get it running, my kicad python scripts all work (save for the things that broke since last time I updated kicad). Having said all that, I don't know that there is urgency to move to Phoenix. AFAIK, wxPython 3.0 works fine with recent wxWidgets. Hope it's helpful. Miles PS - AFAIK, the patch that triggered mention of dumping python due to wxPython still hasn't been denied or merged. :-) https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg31700.html [1] on ubuntu, unstalling wxwidget package didn't remove the wxwidgets libraries. It's quite possible that I was just confused and/or doing it wrong.
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