Report wrapper to call python scripts?

[John Ralls]

> On Jan 1, 2015, at 2:52 PM, Sébastien de Menten <sdementen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello John,
> 
> I went to explore a bit this path to see its feasibility.
> 
> I came with a concrete example of the idea with this single exe (https://github.com/sdementen/piecash/blob/master/piecash_interpreter/piecash_interpreter.exe?raw=true) generated by pyinstaller that takes as argument a python file (and any extra argument) and run it through python 2.7. 
> 
> In this example exe, the piecash module is included so that the piecash_ledger script (https://github.com/sdementen/piecash/blob/master/piecash_interpreter/piecash_interpreter.exe?raw=true) can be run with:
> 
> piecash_interpreter.exe piecash_ledger.py mybook.gnucash
> 
> Could this be also an option for the official python bindings to ease their installation on windows (and maybe OS X but I have not OS X machine...) ? And as possible interface with gnucash and the official python bindings (or any other bindgins/python executable like piecash ;-) )
> 
> sebastien
> 
> On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 3:59 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> 
> > On Dec 27, 2014, at 11:54 PM, Sébastien de Menten <sdementen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Just a thought regarding the need for a python distribution for the python
> > binding on Windows/OS X, would it be an option to build a single executable
> > with the gnucash bindings (see http://www.orbitals.com/programs/pyexe.html
> > or http://www.decalage.info/en/python/py2exe) ?
> > This would give a complete control on the required python version/package
> > distribution.
> 
> Those solutions are for distributing single applications written in Python. They wouldn't do any good for python bindings, where the user supplies code. For that we'd have to bundle the entire Python distribution. Because of the constraints of linking to a particular libpython on OSX -- the interpreter and bindings must link to the same libpython, and different versions of OSX provide different versions of python, were in the same boat there. We'd need to distribute a complete Python installation in the GnuCash bundle, and generally users would have to use the python interpreter we would ship.
> 
> >
> > And if the user is more knowledgeable re python, it could go with its own
> > distribution (+ other relevant comment in this thread)
> 
> That would require somehow coercing the packages shipped with GnuCash to link the library that the interpreter is using. That's not something the typical Python programmer thinks much about.

No. The python bindings are part of GnuCash, and GnuCash isn’t a python program, so neither pyexe nor py2exe will work.
They work with piecash because it’s pure python.

Regards,
John Ralls