python interface to the price database

[Peter Holtermann]

On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 15:59 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: 
> Peter Holtermann <peter.holtermann at systemausfall.org> writes:
> 
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I successfully installed a recent gnucash-svn version and managed to use
> > the python-interface. Anyway, I couldn't find any functions to access
> > the price database, to insert via a python script stock prices etc. or
> > read them out and do a postprocess outside of gnucash. Do such functions
> > exist?
> 
> Right now I do not believe they are wrapped in python..  This is partly
> due to the fact that Python does not share a wrapper implementation with
> the Guile wrappings.  The APIs ARE wrapped in Guile/scheme in
> src/engine/engine.i, but not in the python equivalent.  I see no
> additional references to gnc-pricedb.h in any interface files.

Are there plans to improve the python interface, especially this
feature? I think its pretty crucial for stocks/currencies.

-Peter

> > All the best,
> > Peter
> 
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> -derek
>