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A pythonic interface to GnuCash SQL documents.

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Piecash provides a simple and pythonic interface to GnuCash files stored in SQL (sqlite3 and Postgres, not tested in MySQL).

It is a pure python package, tested on python 2.7 and 3.4, that can be used as an alternative to:

  • the official python bindings (as long as no advanced book modifications and/or engine calculations are needed). This is specially useful on Windows where the official python bindings may be tricky to install or if you want to work with python 3.

  • XML parsing/reading of XML GnuCash files if you prefer python over XML/XLST manipulations.

It allows you to:

  • open existing GnuCash documents and access all objects within

  • modify objects or add new objects (accounts, transactions, prices, …)

  • create new GnuCash documents from scratch

Scripts are also available to:

The project documentation is available on http://piecash.readthedocs.org.

A simple example of a piecash script:

with open_book("example.gnucash") as s:
    # get default currency of book
    print( s.book.default_currency )  # ==> Commodity<CURRENCY:EUR>

    # iterating over all splits in all books and print the transaction description:
    for acc in s.accounts:
        for sp in acc.splits:
            print(sp.transaction.description)

The project has reached beta stage.

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