A python utility for reading a bill of material (BOM) file in a contrived format. This is for a programming take-home interview I did in 2018.
Author: Dan Haggerty ([email protected])
Date: Jan. 11th, 2018
This module provides a BOMReader class and a command-line tool for reading a BOM file (text). BOM files contain a value (referred to as n) in the first line, and a list of parts in the other lines. n is the number of top-n occurring parts to be listed. Parts can appear in the BOM file in one of three formats.
BOMReader parses manufacturer, MPN, and the list of reference designators from each line, and keeps a counter of the number of occurrences of each part.
python bomdotcom.py test_files/example.bom
python bomdotcom_test.py
2
Wintermute Systems -- CASE-19201:A2,A3
AXXX-1000:Panasonic:D1,D8,D9
Z1,Z3;40001;Keystone
Z1,Z3,Z8;40001;Keystone