I would love for that restriction to be removed. Never thought about
patching it myself, I hope there's no deep architectural reason for that
constraint?



Sincerely,
Timothy Jesionowski

On Mon, Mar 2, 2026, 6:32 PM Aaron Stacy <[email protected]> wrote:

> The beancount loader has an error if a file is imported multiple times (
> code
> <https://github.com/beancount/beancount/blob/eb8be17c750257dc693e3173c30d2cabc9ab2faa/beancount/loader.py#L440>
> ).
>
> I noticed because I was trying to organize my ledger something like this:
>
> [image: ledger_deps.png]
>
> And got the error. I want each of banking.beancount and income.beancount
> to include accounts.beancount because my editor plugin will give me errors
> if I don't (since the accounts aren't defined).
>
> Looks like this functionality has been around just about as long as the
> include directive (commit
> <https://github.com/beancount/beancount/commit/1ad7017ca8bba9af7e13ed6613c28f14126b0ea7>),
> and I couldn't find any docs on why this would be an error.
>
> When I remove the error, the loading logic seems to work fine. Any chance
> I could mail a PR to remove this error?
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