Initializing commodities table

[Tripp Lilley]

I'm using src/optional/swig/examples/scan-acct.pl as a starting point to
try to understand raw access to the engine. My eventual goal, as I
mentioned in a previous message, is to make the GnuCash engine available
to Python folk.

So far, I have a really simple C test program that inits the engine,
begins and loads a book, then ends the book and exits. When loading the
book, I get this message:

** WARNING **: unable to find global commodity for ISO4217::USD adding new

which I assume means that the engine is sort of "empty" at this point, and
doesn't have many of the default definitions / entities loaded that
gnucash has when running. So how would I do "environment" initialization
similar to what the gnucash GUI is doing?

I've found src/scm/commodity-*, which would -seem- to contain, among other
things, code to "prime" the commodities table. How do I convince the
engine to run this? Or do I need to do some other black magic first, like
spinning up the guile interpreter and feeding it this code?

Thanks!

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