Impressions of 1.6.x and engine bindings for python

Rob Brown-Bayliss on_the_net@clear.net.nz
18 Aug 2001 08:01:33 +1200


 
>    (inter-bank account transfers).  (Actually I suspect it vanishes
>    into an interest-bearing account where the banks cream off the
>    interest!) 

We have the same thing here in NZ for cheques, it's bogus isn't it. 

I understand why this was needed in the pre-computer days, but now the
banks remove the money from my account the day the cheque is presented,
but the presenter does not recive the cheque for 5 working days unless,
wonder of wonders they pay a fee, and it is magically reduced to 3
working days!  

 
> My only remaining difficulty now is not of Gnucash's making -- my new
> online bank (Smile) don't support statement exporting so I must input
> them by hand.  I'm tempted to write a PERL program to extract the info
> from the  HTML pages and convert it into QIF for import.

Along these lines, is/are there perl/python bindings for the engine?  I
ask as I am developing a POS system for a small fashion retailer in NZ,
and rather than make my own substandard accounting system for it I would
like to be able to use the gnucash system by having my python app
directly insert entries into the gnucash datafiles.


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  Rob Brown-Bayliss
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