Downloading European share prices

[Benjamin So]

Thanks for the explanation. So in a nutshell, I'll have to wait until 
the next release and just manually enter the prices in the meantime?

Ben

On 4/05/2005, at 1:10, David Hampton wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 00:59 +0800, Benjamin So wrote:
>> Hi David,
>>
>> According to FinkCommander, my 1.08-11 version of finance-quote is
>> up-to-date. Using your example, I get the following result:
>>
>> benjamin$ dump-finance-quote yahoo UBSN.VX
>>
>> The query for UBSN.VX failed!!
>> Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
>>      symbol: UBSN.VX              <=== required
>>        date: 5/3/2005             <=== required
>>    currency: ** missing **        <=== required
>>        last: 94.85                <=\
>>         nav:                      <=== one of these
>>       price: 94.85                <=/
>>    timezone:                      <=== optional
>>
>> The failure message is a bit worrying, although the value is the same.
>> Also, the currency is missing.
>
> The error is misleading.  From a F::Q point of view, the query was
> successful.  From a Gnucash point of view, the query failed because the
> returned quote has no currency attached.
>
>> Is this perhaps an indication that I
>> need to update finance-quote, despite Fink's opinion to the contrary?
>
> 1.08 is indeed the latest released version of F::Q.  I haven't asked 
> the
> lead F::Q maintainer to push out a new version of F::Q because I was
> hoping to get in a few more changes first.  I've been sidetracked by
> other projects which is why it hasn't happened yet.
>
> David