Re: [GNC] Access the Company Name in python

2020-02-16 Thread Raymond Smith
I don't know if this is a good/robust solution, but I have been playing with parsing gnucash xml files with python recently. This is how I would do it. This assumes a file in the same directory named 'test_business.gnucash' that is saved with compression. If you save without compression, you can

Re: [GNC] two copies on the same computer.

2020-01-26 Thread Raymond Smith
Great, thanks for the info, that's reassuring. Ray On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 10:57 PM David Cousens wrote: > The main problem, at least on Linux, is that the user configuration files > are > shared between two intsances which means saved reports, customization etc > are shared. If each data

Re: [GNC] two copies on the same computer.

2020-01-25 Thread Raymond Smith
Hi, David. Do you have any more information on the strange things that can happen? I've done a bit of managing two different files on the same computer at the same time recently, so I'm wondering if there are things I should go back and check. Thanks, Ray On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 8:19 PM David

Re: [GNC] Scripted price editing and adding

2020-01-19 Thread Raymond Smith
Thanks to all for the inputs and suggestions. It sounds like I could make this work with a number of different paths, but I'll follow the "read, but don't write" suggestion and defer more of the analysis to the post-reading side and rely less on things like the built-in net worth time plot in

[GNC] Scripted price editing and adding

2020-01-14 Thread Raymond Smith
Hi, Gnucash list. I'm interested in using a script to add and edit prices in my Gnucash file. For example, I'd like to (a) loop over a file containing historical price data and add prices for dates where the price is missing because I didn't do a quote retrieval in Gnucash that day (b) loop over

Re: [GNC] Addition of Mailing List Subject Prefix

2018-04-11 Thread Raymond Smith
I also prefer keeping the subject prefix. Ray On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 2:17 PM, Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > Ralph, > > What is your e-mail client? Can it not filter mail? Can it not tag mail? > Can it not handle mailing-lists? > > Regards, > Adrien > > > On Apr