python bindings

[Peter]

>
> What are the python bindings are intended to do -- add extensions of one 
> sort or another to gnucash?  
This would certainly be possible, for example to add alternative 
automatical quote update plugins when perl quotes is not the best solution
( for example, perl quotes does only work on a selection of sites like 
yahoo which has somehow incomplete data for people living in Europe )
> 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?
>
>   
This is what I have in mind. For example, I could write a program that 
would interface a system for securities management to gnucash in order 
to automatically add transactions for bond income payments
( I could do this with scheduled transactions but this requires me to 
enter information that I have already entered in a more specialized 
system ).

For the moment , I have written a basic command line interface that lets 
me quickly list data from gnucash ( all accounts, all transactions, 
sorted by <$your_criterion> ) thus benefiting from linux command line 
magic. ( much quicker than gui, more filter possibilites, nice for 
automatic tests, since it is easier to test command line interfaces than 
data in a GUI, etc )
It would probably be possible to hook up a webframework ( pylons, 
turbogears ) and several people would have webbased access ( don't know 
if this is interesting ... )

Peter