About your prior question: Beancount completely disregards order. It is more or less thrown away; all the directives are sorted by date for processing.
On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 5:45 PM, Vivek Gani <[email protected]> wrote: > After trying to fight to have a reverse chronological order setup, > What difficulties did you encounter? There should have been none. Beancount throws away ordering (on purpose). > I ceded after realizing I'm going to be fighting how beancount ingest > outputs data - namely the order of 'entries' returned from the extract > method in an Importer is always going to be re-ordered in chronological > order. Seems to be better to go for for convention over configuration. > That's trivial to change; there's a command-line option to output the entries in reverse order. See here: https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/src/6292d31f5d14b4bcb282847241b82d9505589e0e/beancount/ingest/extract.py?at=default&fileviewer=file-view-default#extract.py-190 > > As far as re-ordering my existing ledger back into chronlogical order, you > can just use bean-query 'print' to do this: > $ bean-query myLedger.beancount print > myLedger-chronological.beancount > > > On Saturday, November 25, 2017 at 1:34:51 PM UTC-8, Vivek Gani wrote: >> >> Hi! I've been learning beancount and have been really impressed with the >> thought and structure that's gone into it. I'm a bit afraid of going into a >> bikeshedding argument here, but is there any issue with using beancount in >> reverse chronological order (newest first)? So far I haven't seen any >> argument against it, though all the examples skew towards a normal >> chronological order - is the rationale for that method so it's easier to >> 'append' new transactions? >> >> Cheers, >> Vivek >> > -- > 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/beancount/da1c17b5-aec1-47c7-8ebd-cb445933f77a%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/da1c17b5-aec1-47c7-8ebd-cb445933f77a%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAK21%2BhMJCjTVGSq0xa5%3DVjcxhBLUtBysEmR9tNc8rjELmvac9g%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
