On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 1:36 PM James Cook <jc...@cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> > > > There's a downside to the method you're using: there's no price and > mistakes will go unchecked. > > It would be more robust to use @, let Beancount do its thing, and to > write a plugin to strip the price and insert the postings. > > Yes, plugin support would be good. I think a simple plugin that sees > > Expenses:Work:Conference 60.00 EUR @ 2 USD > > and transforms that into > > Expenses:Work:Conference 60.00 EUR > Equity:Trade -60.00 EUR > Equity:Trade 120.00 USD > > would match my use case pretty well. I'm not sure if that's exactly > what the existing trading accounts plugin you linked to does. If it's > not, it's simple enough I might just write it. > Yes, but there are a few gotchas, see comments: https://github.com/beancount/beancount/blob/master/beancount/plugins/currency_accounts.py#L129 It's 95% of the way there. In v3 I'd like to make this the main method and to iron out all the remaining issues. James > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Beancount" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAHpmPOA8%3D_R%3DZQubFZLotdTPHWhwCEe_CD75REvWC%3Dv%2BHx1KDg%40mail.gmail.com > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAK21%2BhNUFh6mzmLZdAGNQberUW%2B%3DGhgoPWpzSoRRfYbos5%3DM5Q%40mail.gmail.com.
