On Monday 17 March 2014 10:21:16 Mike Evans wrote: > On Sun, 16 Mar 2014 13:41:42 -0700 > > David Osguthorpe <david.osgutho...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 08:54:10PM +0100, Felix Schwarz wrote: > > > Am 16.03.2014 20:38, schrieb John Ralls: > > > > The signature of xaccAccountGetName is const char* > > > > xaccAccountGetName (const Account *); the const was added in > > > > 2005. A "const Account *" is not the same as an "Account const > > > > *": The former means that the contents of the pointer won't > > > > change, the latter means that the pointer itself won't change > > > > (see https://www.cs.bu.edu/teaching/cpp/const/). > > > > > > > > Somewhere in the SWIG-generated Python-to-C translation code the > > > > argument type is wrong, but it's not directly in the stack > > > > trace from Python. It's more likely due to a change in SWIG > > > > than to a change in GnuCash.> > > > > Thank you very much for the insights - seems really easy to miss. > > > I'll take a look at the SWIG files and the generated code then. > > > > > > But that means it would be interesting if gnucash's example script > > > " " works for anyone, right? If we had a > > > success report this might provide some insight about the relevant > > > swig changes.> > > not all the example scripts work - but this one does for me > > (the business ones have issues) > > > > also you need slightly different arguments now because of the > > xml/sqlite possibility > > > > David > > new_book_with_opening_balances.py works for me too on Fedora18 and > SWIG Version 2.0.8. > > Mike E
It's likely due to a change in swig as John suggested: I get the error on Fedora 20 (x8_64) with latest git version of gnucash and swit 2.0.11. Geert _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
