Keeping this on the list...
That's documentation, of a sort. Not great, but it does pretty much
verify that there is nothing in there for handling budget, or future
transactions. Since I would need that in order to do a proper
forecasting report (Balance Sheet on an arbitrary date in the future) it
looks like my only option is to try and teach myself just enough Guile
to follow the current reports and combine them. I had started on this,
then got stuck. I figured that if there was a way to avoid learning any
LISP derivative that it was a good thing to do. It does not look like
it is going to work out,, however. It's either back to Guile, or pass
on creating the report.
Marc
On 05/28/2014 08:37 AM, angus wrote:
Marc
I'm a fairly typical programmer - what's documentation :-)
I've mainly been using it to manage my shares/investments -
determining cost base, summarise income and yield for a period
(financial year), etc. The few lines below give an example of what I'm
producing. The problem I had experienced was the change covered in Bug
726430 - Python: account.getName() raises TypeError - "Account
functions return Accounts or lists of Accounts now instead of
SwigPyObjects." so was fairly easy to sort out once I'd figured that out.
XXX - XXX Limited (609.00 shares; Mkt Price: $2728.32) as at 2013-06-30
Date Shares Price Value Expenses Share
Bal Value Bal Cost Base Description
---------- ------------ --------- ------------ --------- ------------
------------ ------------ -----------
1997-11-20 152.0000 10.4300 1,585.36 0.00 152.0000
1,585.36 1,585.36 Demutualisation
1998-06-22 52.0000 18.7000 972.40 17.02 204.0000
2,557.76 2,574.78 Buy some more
I run my Python scripts outside of gnucash. I see you've been
investigating tying them in more neatly with the gnucash Report menu
(https://www.mail-archive.com/gnucash-devel@gnucash.org/msg34711.html
). I also looked briefly at Scheme-guile and decided native Python
was the way to go. Sometime in the future I might look at integrating
it/them better.
I haven't yet looked at Budget info or Future transactions neither
with the bindings or gnucash itself. If I understood things a little
more I'd guess that currently the bindings for these aren't there. If
you look at http://svn.gnucash.org/docs/head/annotated.html and expand
python-bindings it might give a flavour for what's currently covered.
Once I'm more comfortable with what I'm doing/done I will document it
for the greater good.
Kind regards
AnGus
On 28/05/14 22:25, Marc Shapiro wrote:
Angus,
I have a few questions about Python bindings, and since you have been
using them regularly... Do you have any documentation on what can,
or cannot be done with them? What functions are available? What the
syntax for those functions is? Do the bindings include functions to
access budget info, or Future Transactions?
Marc
--
Kind regards
AnGus King
Switched on Solar!
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