[GNC] tutorials or examples for connecting/programming for GnuCash data access

2022-07-25 Thread Eric Hammond
Are there tutorial examples / videos for using Python and/or Sqlite3 to work with GnuCash. I have never used Sqlite, and my Python experience is mostly industrial, and outdated. (Like, what are bindings?) Thanks for any and all help Eric * ___

[GNC] tutorials or examples for connecting/programming for GnuCash data access

2022-07-25 Thread flywire
TLDR: GnuCash Windows version is compiled on linux so, considering the note below, you are unlikely to get python bindings working in Windows. > Important > The Python extensions are an optional feature which creates additional > dependencies. To be > able to use Python scripts, GnuCash must ha

Re: [GNC] tutorials or examples for connecting/programming for GnuCash data access

2022-07-25 Thread john
> On Jul 25, 2022, at 9:30 AM, Eric Hammond wrote: > > Are there tutorial examples / videos for using Python and/or Sqlite3 to work > with GnuCash. > I have never used Sqlite, and my Python experience is mostly industrial, and > outdated. > (Like, what are bindings?) Google found no GnuCash

Re: [GNC] tutorials or examples for connecting/programming for GnuCash data access

2022-07-26 Thread john
Please remember to copy the list on all replies. While providing a stable library for other applications to use is a long-term goal we've still got a fair amount of work to do before we can support it. Until then we make absolutely no API or ABI stability guarantees for the shared libraries: On

Re: [GNC] tutorials or examples for connecting/programming for GnuCash data access

2022-07-26 Thread john
If you mean the gnucash-x.x-setup.exe distributed as part of releases, it's built on Windows in the MSYS2 environment using gcc. You're correct that the Python bindings aren't included. That's also the case for the macOS GnuCash.app and flatpak. The reason is that the bindings must be linked aga

Re: [GNC] tutorials or examples for connecting/programming for GnuCash data access

2022-07-26 Thread Eric Hammond
Thank you, I will check it out All the best, Eric From: john Sent: Monday, July 25, 2022 11:07 AM To: Eric Hammond Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] tutorials or examples for connecting/programming for GnuCash data access On Jul 25, 2022, at 9:30 AM, Eric Hammond mailto:e