This lets you run standard report queries against a Ledger journal and
get back a collection of postings, for example:
import ledger
journal = ledger.Journal("sample.dat")
posts = journal.collect("-M assets")
for post in posts:
print post.account
However, this code is not really working yet for a large variety of
reasons, having to do with object life-time, shallow copying, and lack
of reference counting where it should be. For instance, calling
ledger.Journal().collect() fails because the temporary journal object is
destroyed and the collection now has a host of bad pointers. Using "for
post in journal.collect()" fails too with other bad pointers. And the
whole lot of it crashes on exit at the moment.
This allows for value expressions to be used which reference the
incoming posting, for example:
= Income:Clients:
(Liabilities:Taxes:VAT1) (floor(amount) * 1)
(Liabilities:Taxes:VAT2) 0.19
2009/07/27 * Invoice
Assets:Bank:Checking $1,190.45
Income:Clients:ACME_Inc
The automated posting for VAT1 will use the floored amount multiplied by
a factor, while the posting for VAT2 multiples the whole amount as
before.
These strings are now collected automagically in the file po/ledger.pot.
If you'd like to produce a translation, just run this command after
building Ledger:
msginit -l LOCALE -o LANG.po -i po/ledger.pot
Where LOCALE is a string like de or en_GB, and LANG is a short
descriptive word for your language.
Then send me this .po file so I can commit it to the Ledger sources
(alternatively, you could maintain the file in a fork on GitHub), and
setup the build script to format and install your new message catalog
during a "make install".
