On Nov 27, 2010, at 4:40 AM, Donald Allen wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 5:23 AM, Fred Verschueren <f...@fremar.be> wrote:
>> Don,
>> 
>> thanks for your advice and explanation.
>> I've done it the way you described and it took me 50 sec per year for one
>> account, so in total 25 minutes.
> 
> Good.
> 
>> 
>> Nevertheless I think having the layout of the database can help making own
>> reports easy.
> 
> Absolutely. I've already done my own report-writing outside gnucash,
> processing the xml file (with a python program; python has good xml
> parsing facilities in its library), which I reverse-engineered. Having
> the data in a database and the data-model documented will makes this
> sort of thing much easier and the code less messy.
> 

You do know that there are python bindings to Gnucash's internals in 2.3? No 
need to reverse-engineer (well, maybe a bit -- the developer documentation 
isn't that great).
Regards,
John Ralls

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