Python bindings: patch, documentation, examples

[David Osguthorpe]

I am using the python bindings - in fact was just going to see about
getting some patches to update the bindings.

Just updated to 2.6.0 - looks as though some functions that used to exist
no longer exist in the Account class so need to be removed from
gnucash_business.py

Ive noticed that the python bindings are not very "pythonic" - I have some
updates which improve this eg  account lookup used to require testing that
the swig instance was None - this got updated somewhere between 2.4 and 2.6
so now the python class returns None - the "pythonic" way seems to me is to
raise exception - which is what one of my updates does

So I was going to  email this list to see what is going on with the
bindings and how such improvements could be added.

Such updates will fail existing python code - such as the examples -
although Ive found other cases where existing changes means some of the
example python code no longer works

David


On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Henning Jacobs <henning at jacobs1.de> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> I recently discovered the great Python bindings and just updated
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Python_Bindings to contain pointers to my
> scripts.
>
> Now my questions:
>
> * GncPrice does not contain a proper __init__, therefore I monkey
> patched it:
>
> https://github.com/hjacobs/gnucash-stock-portfolio/blob/master/gnucash_patch.py
> --- What's the best way to make a patch request for the original GnuCash
> Python bindings?
> * Are there any other known/major users of the Python bindings?
> * Who is maintaining the Python bindings and is there any roadmap to
> improve them?
>
> IMHO the Python bindings are a really great way of enhancing the GnuCash
> functionality without having to code C/C++ (I would not be very
> productive with it...)
> I will properly write more code in the near future using the Python
> bindings --- I would also gladly help extending/improving the current
> code base and/or documentation :-)
>
> - - Henning
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