Added utility programs which update motor subsitutions files from

the values read rom the actual controller

utils/convertsub.py

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+#!/usr/bin/python
+"""
+This is a little program which generates soft motor initialisation lines and iocsh morsels
+from a motor substitutions file. 
+
+Mark Koennecke, December 2019 
+"""
+import sys
+import pdb
+import os
+
+if len(sys.argv) < 2:
+    print('Usage:\n\tconvertsub XXXX.substitutions')
+    sys.exit(1)
+
+subLen = 0
+motors = []
+port = None
+
+with open(sys.argv[1],'r') as fin:
+    line = fin.readline()
+    while line:
+        line = line.replace(' ','')
+        line = line.strip('{}')
+        l = line.split(',')
+        if line.find('DHLM') > 0:  # that is the index discovery line
+            lowlimidx = l.index('DLLM')
+            highlimidx = l.index('DHLM')
+            mresidx = l.index('MRES')
+            addridx = l.index('ADDR')
+            prefix = l[0]
+            subLen = len(l)
+            portIdx = l.index('PORT')
+        elif subLen > 0:
+            l = line.split(',')
+            if subLen == len(l):
+                motors.append((l[addridx],l[mresidx],l[lowlimidx],l[highlimidx]))
+                port = l[portIdx]
+        else:
+            pass
+        line = fin.readline()
+
+print('%d motors found' % len(motors))
+
+fname = os.path.splitext(sys.argv[1])[0] + '.cmd'
+
+out = open(fname,'w')
+out.write('motorSimCreateController(\"%s\",%d)\n' % (port, len(motors)+2))
+for mot in motors:
+    mres = float(mot[1])
+    highlim = int(float(mot[3])/mres)
+    lowlim = int(float(mot[2])/mres)
+    out.write('motorSimConfigAxis(\"%s\",%s,%d,%d,0,0)\n' %(port,mot[0],highlim,lowlim))
+out.write('dbLoadTemplate(\"$(TOP)/%s\")\n' % (sys.argv[1])) 
+out.close()
+print(fname + ' written')