Python bindings on Mac OS 10.9

[R. Victor Klassen]

Getting python bindings to work is really mostly an excuse to get my feet wet.   I’m looking at creating the capability to muck around in the C, so building the current development and stable versions are critical.   I’d be using the python bindings on the production system, and for that I’m already using 6.1.  The development version would be on the other machine.

Thanks, though.

On Feb 6, 2014, at 8:26 PM, Alun Champion <alun at achampion.net> wrote:

> I was able to build gnucash in macports. If I remember correctly I
> only needed to make a couple of corrections to yelp (remove dependency
> on gnome-settings-daemon and fix some X11 code dependencies - headers
> and commented out some code). Hindsight, it would have been much
> easier just to remove the yelp dependency in gnucash port file as it
> is only a runtime dependency and I only needed the python bindings.
> I was experimenting with importing historical quotes and option quotes
> using YQL.
> The macports version is still 2.4.X (gnucash-devel is 2.5.X).
> 
> 
> On 6 February 2014 07:18, Alexandro Colorado <jza at oooes.org> wrote:
>> OpenOffice includes Python in the application and also includes the csv
>> module.  On linux is:
>> /opt/openoffice4/program/python-core-2.7.5/lib/csv.py
>> 
>> Where /opt/ is the installation folder. On Windows this could be C:\Program
>> Files\OpenOffice 4/
>> 
>> Mac would be like Applications or something.
>> 
>> Also you can easily insert information from OpenOffice itself through
>> macros which work on Basic. Please read:
>> http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php
>> https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/BASIC_Guide
>> 
>> There is a python guide too, but this is just another route to go.
>> 
>> A third route is to use python modules to generate or transcode to ODF,
>> something like ODFpy to convert from one format to the next:
>> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/odfpy
>> It includes csv2odf (spreadsheet)
>> 
>> 
>> On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 1:56 PM, 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.
>>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> Surely it can't be this hard.  Am I doing something wrong?
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