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 _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel