[GNC-dev] Python bindings: Exception when calling GetDatePosted on unposted invoice

[Geert Janssens]

Hi Frank,

I believe this is
https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796893

That bug has been fixed for gnucash 3.4.

Regards,

Geert

Op woensdag 6 februari 2019 19:19:57 CET schreef Frank Oltmanns:
> Dear all,
> 
> I'm using the python bindings from GnuCash 3.3 (debian package from sid).
> When calling GetDatePosted() on an unposted invoice a get the following
> exception:
> ValueError: month must be in 1..12
> 
> This function is used in the example scripts that are part of GnuCash
> (gnucash_simple.py). In this example the exception is not caught but
> instead there is a check if the date is 1970-01-01 (of course it never
> comes to the check because of the exception).
> 
> This is the stack trace:
>   File "/path/to/gnucash_helper/gnucash_simple.py", line 161, in
> invoiceToDict
>     if invoice.GetDatePosted().strftime('%Y-%m-%d') == '1970-01-01':
>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gnucash/function_class.py", line 91,
> in method_function
>     *process_list_convert_to_instance(meth_func_args) )
>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gnucash/gnucash_core_c.py", line
> 3919, in gncInvoiceGetDatePosted
>     return _gnucash_core_c.gncInvoiceGetDatePosted(invoice)
> 
> Is this something that has changed since GnuCash 2.6 and was
> gnucash_simple.py has not been updated accordingly? Or is this an error in
> _gnucash_core_c.gncInvoiceGetDatePosted()?
> 
> I mean, should I design my application to expect the exception or should
> this be fixed in the python bindings. If it is the latter, I'd appreciate
> any pointers on where I should start looking.
> 
> Best regards
>   Frank
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