Anyone have some nice python code that will slice and dice a gnucash XML file, but leave it whole?

[Derek Atkins]

I don't know about python, but several years ago a collegue of mine
wrote a PERL script to do it:

https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2005-January/012817.html

-derek

Quoting John Griessen <john_g at cibolo.com>:

> Ron Morse wrote:
>> I would offer that the Gnucash data file is really pretty compact
>
> Mine's at 3.2MB uncompressed.
>
> n Mon, 2007-12-17 at 12:28 -0500, Donald Allen wrote:
> > > This is why I'm working on the Python program I
> > > mentioned in an email to this thread last night. I'm already getting
> > > income statement, balance sheet, net worth, and unrealized gains (with
> > > dividends) reports from it,
>
> ============================================
>
> Finding a safe, easy way to trim out old data,
> maybe combined with using equity, assets, and liabilities in a formal 
> closeout
> would be helpful.
>
> Deleting old data will change the gnucash account balances whether 
> you do a formal close or not.
> I am thinking of closing out up to 2006 end, checking that
> 2007 numbers are correct, backing up, then chopping out old data and 
> adjusting balances back to correct
> before continuing to add more data.  That should cut the file size 
> down a lot.
>
>
>
> John Griessen
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