Thanks Martin. Yeah I need datetime not just date type, which is of course not terribly compatible with the mandate for human-friendly input format.
I'm browsing through beancount.core.inventory.add_amount(), which seems to assume that the units have pre-matched against the positions in inventory.... if you specify cost=None it'll just operate on the first item in the list without further iteration, yes? Does this matching happen elsewhere in the code, or is it a straight pass-through from JEs listed in a text file? On Thursday, 5 January 2017 22:55:17 UTC-6, Martin Blais wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 12:09 PM, Christopher Singley <ch...@singleys.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Hi, I'm writing some accounting applications in Python, and thereby >> stumbled upon beancount. >> >> It occurs to me that you might be interested in my OFX parser: >> >> https://github.com/csingley/ofxtools >> >> It handles a pretty decent subset of the OFX spec, it handles OFX >> versions 1 & 2, and it has no dependencies beyond stdlib. >> > > Thanks for the link. > Looks nice. > > One of the example importers in beancount.ingest does OFX. However, it's > not intended to be a full-fledged OFX thing... it's really just a good > example of how to build a custom importer with some basic and admittedly > sloppy OFX parsing. Ideally people would use something like your library. > > > I'm investigating using beancount as an accounting engine...human-readable >> text files are great. >> >> The main focus of my present work is booking investment transactions from >> data downloads, and from reading your document "Trading with Beancount" I'm >> wondering if it's a good fit. >> > > It's good for personal finance level work. If you're a day trader and are > pumping 20+ trades/day, you'll probably want to make something more > specialized, that takes into account time and that has specialized P/L > reporting. As an example, I use it to track my own portfolio with perhaps > 20 trades/month, across 3-4 accounts, some pre-tax/retirement, some active, > including occasional currency trading/hedging, so not "active" but also a > fair bit more than most people's retirement-only activity. > > > Have you ever solved the problem of preserving lot opening dates through >> various reorganizations (splits, mergers, spinoffs, basis reductions, >> etc.)? In general, assets can be booked in with an opening date different >> than the transaction date, and it doesn't appear that beancount handles >> that. >> > > Yes. > I've done splits and cost basis adjustments, no problem. > Right now the way to do this is to empty the lot (like you're selling it) > and in the same transaction replace it on another posting. > The replacement lot can accept a date override, which gets carried on the > new lot. > You put the date in the {...} cost specifier. > There's no check that the date matches the other lot... you could put any > date you want, so be careful. > Otherwise, by default, an augmenting lot acquires the date of its > transaction. > > For splits, the current methodology is to keep the same symbol. An > alternative would be to automatically generate appropriate symbols > internally and have some sort of syntax to indicate that the symbol's > "version number" has moved on, but I haven't done work on that yet, nor do > I feel it's a great hindrance so far. The price database does, on the other > hand, have wonky kinks when that happens. > > I don't know about mergers and spinoffs, but I presume the same technique > would work. > > Hope this helps, > > > > > Thanks, >> Chris >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Beancount" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to beancount+...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to bean...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/af40974c-cd6f-4155-a4ea-5d533d4f47b2%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/af40974c-cd6f-4155-a4ea-5d533d4f47b2%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to beancount@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/4c5c6f5e-e827-40e9-92b8-31f255987dfe%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
