Ah, thanks for the pointers to autobean-format, that does indeed do what I need. Should have asked first, heh heh.
I will add a deprecation notice to my repo and a reference and recommendation to that instead. cheers, Simon On Wed, 18 Jun 2025 at 18:49, Red S <[email protected]> wrote: > Same here. OP, wondering if you came across SEIAROTg's repo below > <https://github.com/SEIAROTg/autobean-format#examples>, and if you did, > if it didn't meet your needs? > > On Tuesday, June 17, 2025 at 6:11:37 AM UTC-7 Brian Lalor wrote: > > I’ve found autobean-format to be extremely useful. > https://github.com/SEIAROTg/autobean-format#examples > — > Brian Lalor (he/him) > [email protected] > > On Jun 17, 2025, at 1:58 AM, Paul Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > > Interesting! I had my own need for this recently, but with a requirement > to "fix" currency columns/spacing. The script gets pretty short if you > leverage some internal methods, but this also ends up stripping comments > and filling in empty/inferred posting amounts. It looks like yours would > preserve more context by more or less splitting on date. I ended up with > this plus some messy logic to regextract my fava currency-column option: > > import sys > from beancount.loader import load_file > from beancount.parser import printer > from beancount.scripts import format > > def main(file): > entries, errors, options = load_file(file) > > entries_sorted = sorted(entries, key=lambda x: x.date) > > # Or if you don't need formatting, just > printer.print_entries(entries_sorted, file=file) > with open(file, 'w') as f: > # Enumerate to get "last" entry to skip extra inter-directive > newline > for i, entry in enumerate(entries_sorted): > printed = printer.format_entry(entry) > # Align the printed entry with a currency column, set or grab > from options (e.g. Fava) > formatted = format.align_beancount(printed, currency_column=61) > f.write(formatted) > if i != len(entries_sorted) - 1: > f.write('\n') > > if __name__ == "__main__": > if len(sys.argv) != 2: > print("Usage: python bean-sort.py <beancount-file>") > sys.exit(1) > main(sys.argv[1]) > > Thanks for sharing! > Paul > > On Monday, June 16, 2025 at 9:56:26 PM UTC-4 Simon Guest wrote: > > And now the repo is public. 🤭 > > On Tue, 17 Jun 2025 at 12:23, Simon Guest <[email protected]> wrote: > > I made a naive sorting utility for Beancount. I hunted for such a thing > and failed to find one, which surprised me. > > Anyway, it was quicker to write a few lines of Python than keep wondering > whether or why this hadn't been done before. > > Here in case it helps anyone else. > > https://github.com/tesujimath/bean-sort > > cheers, > Simon > > > -- > 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 [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/4dc9dbe6-31f8-4ed3-909b-9bf053b48b94n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/4dc9dbe6-31f8-4ed3-909b-9bf053b48b94n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > > -- > 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 [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/855e88f9-974d-40a6-ac35-74444fa0b41fn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/855e88f9-974d-40a6-ac35-74444fa0b41fn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAFhGSbtyAXuNrBne-or0%2Buhr9w40wUjuc4z%3D5e0y-U5Cnt%2BABw%40mail.gmail.com.
