Problem obtaining share price
David Hampton
hampton-gnucash at rainbolthampton.net
Thu Jun 22 10:33:23 EDT 2006
On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 18:53 +1000, Leslie Katz wrote:
> [leslie at localhost ~]$ dump-finance-quote yahoo_australia WCTPA
> Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
> symbol: WCTPA.AX <=== required
> date: 06/22/2006 <=== required
> currency: <=== required
> last: 99.910 <=\
> nav: <=== one of these
> price: 99.910 <=/
> timezone: <=== optional
>
> I noticed that the information obtained for the new share did not have
> the currency field filled in, although the information obtained for the
> longstanding one did.
>
> I suspect that that means that the problem is with Yahoo rather than
Yes, this is a problem with Yahoo. Instead of returning the currency
"AUD" for WCTPA.AX, or not returning any currency, yahoo is declaring
that the currency is "". F::Q can handle the first two, but doesn't
handle the latter.
The attached patch should solve the problem for you.
David
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