announcing python bindings for GnuCash

[Tom Purl]

Fantastic Mark!  Thanks for your efforts.

On Wed, March 7, 2007 2:18 pm, Mark Jenkins wrote:
> Hello GnuCash user list and friends,
>
> I've been working on python bindings for GnuCash off and on for the last
>  9 months. Today they reached the point where I was comfortable turning
> this project into a *public* free software project.
>
> http://www.parit.ca/projects/pythongnucash/
>
> That website has been up for awhile, but not kept up to date or well
> advertised until today. If you've tried to download and build it before,
> I would not anticipate that you had succeeded. The build process has now
> been improved and documented. It still isn't completely automagical,
> more work is needed. The SWIG work by the gnucash developers will help
> this too.
>
>
> Goals for the 1.0 release:
> - Support all of the core GnuCash entities and the business entities
> - Good documentation
> - Well tested
> - A nice object oriented pythonic api
> - Easy installation/packaging for a variety of free operating systems
>
>
> Here's the source.
> http://www.parit.ca/projects/pythongnucash/python-gnucash-0.7.55.tar.gz
>
> I've applied for a savannah site so that development can become
> collaborative. They'll be a mailing list and CVS access.
> https://savannah.gnu.org/task/?6593
>
>
> Attached is an example script of the bindings in action.
> (found in examples/example_AP_report.py in the tarball)
> Output:
> Your balance with Electric Company is $150.0
>
>
>
> Mark Jenkins
> ParIT Worker Co-operative
> mark at parit.ca
>
> cc fellow ParITistas
> bcc people who I've discussed this with in the past, hope I didn't miss
> anyone...
>