[GNC] Using Python Interface for Web Development.

[John Ralls]

> On Nov 17, 2025, at 17:53, Bite Gao <Redfrog2000 at outlook.com> wrote:
> 
> GnuCash Maintainers:
>     Hello! I am a web developer who would like to use GnuCash's backend engine as a engine for my web financial management system. Since I planned to use django as the backend engine, I would like to know what backend interface I should using: the native c++ interface with python ctypes library, or the python interface.
>     Also, since this mail involves some of development code, should I post it to the development mailing list instead?

Since it’s not about developing GnuCash it doesn’t really matter which list.

There’s no way to attach a python backend module at present so I suppose you’ll have to write a C/C++ shim module to connect to Django. You might be able to get enough from the python bindings to connect to your web UI, but I suspect not. They’re intended for simple scripting and there’s a lot that they don’t expose.

Regards,
John Ralls