Python report-writing mechanism?

[Roger McCalman]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 05:37:45PM -0500, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> Is there any known mechanisms for perhaps being able to create GnuCash
> reports in a more friendly language, such as Python, or is Scheme the
> only mechanism for this?  (And, are there any plans to perhaps permit
> GnuCash to interface with Python that anyone knows of?)

I have some shell and perl scripts that extract the required data from
the XML file to generate a text report to fill my VAT return in. It works
for the limited use I make of it.

I wrote them by examining the XML rather than looking at any DTD's or docs
so it is probably not a good way to do it.

Cheers, Roger