Python bindings: Account.getName() raises TypeError

David Osguthorpe david.osguthorpe at gmail.com
Sun Mar 16 16:41:42 EDT 2014


On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 08:54:10PM +0100, Felix Schwarz wrote:
> 
> Am 16.03.2014 20:38, schrieb John Ralls:
> > The signature of xaccAccountGetName is const char* xaccAccountGetName (const Account *); the const was added in 2005. A "const Account *" is not the same as an "Account const *": The former means that the contents of the pointer won't change, the latter means that the pointer itself won't change (see https://www.cs.bu.edu/teaching/cpp/const/).
> > 
> > Somewhere in the SWIG-generated Python-to-C translation code the argument type is wrong, but it's not directly in the stack trace from Python. It's more likely due to a change in SWIG than to a change in GnuCash.
> 
> Thank you very much for the insights - seems really easy to miss. I'll take a
> look at the SWIG files and the generated code then.
> 
> But that means it would be interesting if gnucash's example script
> "new_book_with_opening_balances.py" works for anyone, right? If we had a
> success report this might provide some insight about the relevant swig changes.
> 

not all the example scripts work - but this one does for me
(the business ones have issues)

also you need slightly different arguments now because of the xml/sqlite possibility

David


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