Actually, this can be implemented as another price source with the piped sources in place of its ticker symbol. That way, no code changes are required for bean-price itself.
Op maandag 12 april 2021 om 14:06:01 UTC+2 schreef Thomas den Hollander: > Computing prices on the fly is nice. However, using it with bean-price > doesn't seem ideal. For example, the required USD/EUR prices are not > fetched by --update if I don't have any USD myself. > > Would it be a good idea to have some sort of pipe syntax for bean-price? > Something like EUR:(source1/ticker1>source2/ticker2) that would first fetch > the price of ticker1 and then convert the currency base using ticker2? It > can just be a chain of multiplication since '^' would take care of > divisions. > Op zondag 11 april 2021 om 20:30:59 UTC+2 schreef pat...@ch.tario.org: > >> What I'm using is to calculate cross rates on the flying using a plugin: >> >> >> So if you have e.g. a stock price in USD and the fx rate between EUR and >> USD, it calculates the stock price in EUR >> >> >> >> https://github.com/tarioch/beancounttools/blob/master/src/tariochbctools/plugins/generate_base_ccy_prices.py >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Patrick >> >> >> On 11.04.2021 20:04, Martin Blais wrote: >> >> Fava is a completely different question and AFAIK it should respect >> Beancount's notion of "operating currency", which is configurable. >> >> For Beanprice, the sources may return their quote currency, here: >> https://github.com/beancount/beanprice/blob/master/beanprice/source.py#L31 >> >> >> On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 1:38 PM Thomas den Hollander < >> denhollan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> One more question. Many price sources are only available in USD while my >>> main currency is EUR. How do I deal with that? Is Fava able to display the >>> total worth by converting via USD to EUR? Should I convert these price >>> statements myself, and if so, would it be useful to have such functionality >>> in bean-price? >>> >>> Op zondag 11 april 2021 om 17:39:18 UTC+2 schreef Thomas den Hollander: >>> >>>> Thanks! My price source is pretty specific, but I'll probably publish >>>> it at some point. >>>> >>>> Op zondag 11 april 2021 om 15:34:51 UTC+2 schreef bl...@furius.ca: >>>> >>>>> You can reference them by the name of their Python module if they're >>>>> outside the library. >>>>> You can use the short name if they're in the library, here: >>>>> https://github.com/beancount/beanprice/tree/master/beanprice/sources >>>>> >>>>> New ones are welcome. Minimal requirement for inclusion in the library >>>>> is a unit test covering basic usage and mocked, that is, not connecting >>>>> to >>>>> the network. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 5:51 AM Thomas den Hollander < >>>>> denhollan...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Hello everyone, >>>>>> >>>>>> I wanted to write custom sources for bean-price, but I'm unsure what >>>>>> the best way to do this is. I'm not very experienced with Python or its >>>>>> module system. Say I have a folder with my own sources, how do I >>>>>> reference >>>>>> these while fetching the price? 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