beancount-syspath 0.2.0

Manipulate sys.path within the beancount file

beancount-syspath

Manipulate sys.path from within the beancount file. This is a plugin for Beancount, a double-entry bookkeeping computer language.

Installation

Install via pip

pip install beancount-syspath

Usage

Prepend list of paths

plugin "beancount_syspath.plugin" "{
    'append': ['some/dir', 'other/dir'],
    'prepend': ['some/dir', 'other/dir'],
}"

Note: Place the directive before other plugin loading ones, so they can make use of the updated sys.path.

Configuration

The config value is a python dict literal, contains the following keys

Key	Type	Optional	Default	Meaning
append	List[str]	yes	[]	Append the list of path to sys.path
prepend	List[str]	yes	[]	Prepend the list of path to sys.path
normalize_to_root	bool	yes	True	If the path is relative, it is considered to be relative to the root beancount file, and normalized to absolute path before adding to sys.path.