Work on Python reporting and Scripting engine for GNU cash

[Christian Stimming]

Dear Rahul,

good to hear you can build from source now.

Can you make sure to run configure with --enable-python, then check the 
examples in the directory src/optional/python-bindings/example_scripts whether 
you can run them as described in the files, respectively? This should give you 
a first feeling on how python programming of gnucash will look like.

On another note, you can try the pygtk http://www.pygtk.org library to see how 
creating gtk GUI elements will look like in python.

In your GSoC project, you can either try to add new GUI elements into gnucash 
using python and pygtk, such as a new interface to certain tasks that you need 
to do yourself but where you don't like the GUI right now. Or you can rather 
do some non-GUI coding with python, such as preparing and writing a text 
report for some numbers throughout gnucash.

On the mailing list we've already received a patch that will add a python 
module into gnucash itself. The current optional/python-bindings is only a 
temporary solution in case one wants to write external python scripts, but 
again, it's a good first step for you to see what it will look like.

Best Regards,

Christian

Am Montag, 14. März 2011 schrieb Rahul Gaur:
> thanks for yr help..gnu cash is running properly now..compilation frm
> svn `ve been sucessful.
> Now for python project ideas...can you brief me about it..?
> Thanks
> Rahul