Python reporting and scripting engine

[Christian Stimming]

Dear Andre,

thank you for your interest in working with gnucash in the GSoC 2011 program. 
As a first step, we suggest you should checkout the gnucash sources from SVN 
and build it yourself (on some Linux/Unix computer), see 
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building

If you're interested in python scripting, I would suggest two things: 

* First, you should read through the example scripts in src/optional/python-
bindings/example_scripts and run those as, well, examples. 

* Secondly, you can check out the brand new SVN (r20472 or higher), then 
modify the file src/python/init.py in the end to say "if True:", then play 
around with the python console that opens upon next gnucash start (if your 
python path includes $prefix/lib/python). From my understanding, every action 
that you can invoke from that console should also be easy to add as a menu 
item anywhere inside gnucash. Feel free to come up with interesting ideas that 
can easily be added through python, but might have been very difficult in non-
python before. Examples that come to mind are: Import from or export to 
various file formats, e.g. http://gnucash.uservoice.com/forums/101223-feature-
request/suggestions/1470567-import-export-client-supplier-details?ref=title or 
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=637004

Also, all the ideas from the uservoice page are useful suggestions for a 
project.

Best Regards,

Christian

Am Mittwoch, 23. März 2011 schrieb Andre Murbach Maidl:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm a student and was taking a look at Google SoC proposed projects for
> gnucash and got very interested
> to work on python reporting and scripting engine.
> 
> Besides python I would like to include lua as well, if there is time to do
> it during SoC.
> 
> If not I would consider it as a future project.
> The reason why I'm interested to include lua also is that I'm currently
> working with lua at the university I'm studying.
> 
> If there is a possibility of working on this project I would be glad to get
> in touch with its mentor.
> 
> Many thanks,
> Andre
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