Python bindings on Mac OS 10.9

[John Ralls]

On Feb 1, 2014, at 11:56 AM, R. Victor Klassen <rvklassen at gmail.com> wrote:

> I’d like to export all transactions from last year to a spreadsheet.  Thus far, when I’ve tried to export a transaction report, the .html file it produces either completely or mostly hangs OpenOffice, and I haven’t been able to copy-paste it into Calc from the word processor that opens it by default.
> 
> So I thought I’d give python bindings a try - to see if I could just export all the transactions to a .csv format.
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> As far as I understand, python bindings requires compiling the source, right?
> 
> When I try to do that I wind up going down a series of rabbit holes looking for one library after another.  First I needed intltool.  Then I needed gettext.  Then I needed to find glib.  And in order to even install glib I needed libffi.  
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> Surely it can’t be this hard.  Am I doing something wrong?  

Yup.

You have two choices: http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/MacOSX/Quartz or http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/MacOSX/MacPortsDetail.

Regards,
John Ralls