ParIT's package and Python bindings examples?

[Christoph Holtermann]

Hello!

Did you use "gnucash-env" when starting (i)python? I first didn't realise that one had to.

I read all your mail ;-)

bye,

Christoph Holtermann 


"..." <offonoffoffonoff at gmail.com> schrieb:

>Finally think I have gnucash 2.2.9 built on my ubuntu 9.04 machine.  But, i
>am not sure that the python bindings included with it are workable.  I was
>not able to execute sample code.
>
>Used
>
>http://www.parit.ca/products/finance/apt-repository
>
>used
>sudo apt-get install gnucash
>sudo apt-get source gnucash
>
>found modules in /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gnucash/  which is already
>in my path.
>
>But i did not find any example code in the unpacked source
>(/home/elliot/gnucash-2.2.9/src/optional/python bindings/)  I downloaded an
>example linked to from the gnucash wiki
>
>http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/browser/gnucash/trunk/src/optional/python-bindings/example_scripts
>
>So i have executable code from ParIT's site and a python example from the
>gnucash repo (which i was unable to build)
>
>I copied the execute statement from the description in
>simple_business_create.py to the shell and executed it.  Did not work.  I
>know that the PYTHONPATH is correct because previously I was accidentally
>using my python2.6 executable, which does not have the gnucash modules in
>its PYTHONPATH and the error was like "cannot find gnucash".  The error
>below is better (it found gnucash but couldn't find a specific detail)
>
>
>elbiot at elbitop:/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gnucash$ gnucash-env
>/usr/bin/python2.5 /home/elbiot/Desktop/tmp/simple_business_create.py
>sqlite3:///home/blah/blah.gnucash
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/home/elbiot/Desktop/tmp/simple_business_create.py", line 41, in
><module>
>    from gnucash.gnucash_business import Customer, Employee, Vendor, Job, \
>ImportError: cannot import name Job
>
>I deleted all referances to Job and got "Cannot import Invoice" next.
>
>so:
>
>1) can I/ should I use the ParIT package to begin working with the python
>bindings? Perhaps it just has a slightly reduced set of non-critical
>functions but still works and has functionality.
>
>2) if so, where can I find an example that will work with this build?  Or do
>I need to keep deleting portions of example code from trunk until I find
>what functions I have access to?
>
>3) is there a manual work around,like copying the python source from trunk
>into my python path, and by that get access to Job, Invoice and whatever
>else.  Or are there changes to the compiled gnucash that need to accompany
>the existence of new objects in the interpreted python code.
>
>( re #3: Despite my better judgement but because I have two different python
>executables with different paths, I copied trunk's python code from
>http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/browser/gnucash/trunk/src/optional/python-bindingsto
>a directory into a directory in python's path so python had only
>trunks
>python code and I got a "cannot import gnucash_core_c", then I copied
>ParIT's python files into the same directory, overwriting whatever trunk
>files had the same name and got "cannot import Job", finally, I rewrote
>trunk's python code into the directory, overwriting some files.  in this
>final step, most of the files were still ParIT's, with a small set of them
>being from trunk.  I got "cannot import name gncInvoiceLookup" which is
>supposedly in gnucash_core_c.  seems like progress but also seems to not be
>going anywhere.
>
>If #3 is possible I'll need some direction.)
>
>wow, you read all this?  thanks.

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