python bindings

[hendrik at topoi.pooq.com]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 08:31:04PM +0100, Peter wrote:
> Thanks a lot, I think I have to wait until bindings are finished since 
> this is daunting task for a complex app like gnucash, just want to say 
> that I started to use gnucash with http://www.sqlalchemy.org
> an excellent object-relational mapper for python ( it is really great 
> that mysql and sqlite are now supported ! ).
> gnucash 2.3.7 works well for me and I can query the data from my python 
> programms to do for example specific reporting and calculations.
> I still can't write data , though and once the python bindings are ready 
> , the combination of sqlalchemy , python and gnucash can open a
> great variety of extensions. It also opens possibilites to automatic 
> testing and consistency checking ( for example for enterprise ( or 
> family ) internal accounting policies )
> 
> thanks for gnucash ( I am even a little richer now, because thanks to 
> gnucash , I waste less money (;- )
> Peter

What are the python bindings are intended to do -- add extensions of one 
sort or another to gnucash?  Or enable independentlypwritten main 
programs to access some kind of gnucash libraries, thereby enabling 
user-written python programs to access the gnucash data bases/files?

-- hendrik