On Tuesday, March 3, 2026 at 5:31:21 AM UTC-6 David Avraamides wrote:

Couldn't you just include accounts.beancount in main.beancount before 
banking.beancount and income.beancount? That's what I do. My main.bean 
(simplified) is:

; global stuff
include "commodities.bean"
include "accounts.bean"
include "prices.bean"

; individual account history
include "data/amazon_david.bean"
include "data/amazon_karen.bean"
include "data/amex_david.bean"
include "data/amex_karen.bean"
(many more individual account includes...)
...

And then I don't have any other include statements in the account-specific 
bean files.

Or does that not address your problem?


Checking the main ledger would work, but unfortunately editor plugins would 
highlight errors in the individual account histories. I find these inline 
errors a nice time saver when reconciling imports.
 


On Mon, Mar 2, 2026 at 7:32 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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