Beta release of piecash (0.3.0)

[Sébastien de Menten]

The first beta release of piecash, a pythonic interface to GnuCash books,
is available on PyPI at https://pypi.python.org/pypi/piecash for both
python 2.7 and python 3.4.

Documentation is available on Read the Docs (http://piecash.readthedocs.org
).
While not yet complete, the documentation offers already a glimpse on the
capabilities of piecash, specially on the following pages:
- quickstart :
http://piecash.readthedocs.org/en/latest/doc/doc.html#quickstart
- example of scripts :
http://piecash.readthedocs.org/en/latest/tutorial/examples.html

Typical uses for piecash :
- create new books from scratch (even on a system without GnuCash installed
as piecash is independent of the GnuCash engine)
- changing objects in existing books (a solution for
http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2014-December/057299.html ?)
- create a parametrised structure of accounts based on some patterns : for
instance, for each family member, create a set of accounts : current assets
+ checking account + savings account
- help in setting up investment accounts : piecash can create a 'stock'
commodity given a symbol (e.g. "YHOO") and can also create the related
accounts to follow a stock investment (as suggested in
http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-guide/invest-setup1.html)
- ...

Feedback and ideas are welcome !

To report issues : https://github.com/sdementen/piecash/issues
To contribute : https://github.com/sdementen/piecash/

Sebastien

ps: to avoid any misunderstanding, the official python binding of GnuCash
(python 2.7) are available at http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Python_Bindings