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Andrew Stein

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On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 11:28 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks for this
>
> On Sunday, December 3, 2017 at 9:25:31 PM UTC-8, [email protected]
> wrote:
>>
>> I encountered similar issues using Herique Bastos's gnucash-tobeancount (
>> https://github.com/henriquebastos/gnucash-to-beancount) and have seen
>> debanjum's changes (https://github.com/debanjum/gnucash-to-beancount).
>>
>> Personally, I am using Gnucash with 17 years of data as my "master" data
>> and doing frequent exports to beancount. I was very reluctant to change the
>> Gnucash data. For this I modified my own copy of gnucash-to-beancount.
>> Seeing this thread inspired me to clean up my work and push it out to
>> github.
>> This version handles:
>>
>>    - Many types of special characters in account and commodity names
>>    (spaces, commas, slash, underscore, period, percent, @, &, +, ?, ', (, ),
>>    ยข).
>>       -  Joe's -> Joes
>>       - 401(k) -> 401k
>>       - CD @ 2% -> CD-at-2-pct
>>    - Account names that start with '-' or a digit (401k -> X-401k)
>>    - Account names that start with lower case (iBond -> IBond)
>>    - Commodity names that have lower case or dashes or are longer than
>>    24 characters.
>>    - Notes with double quotes (")
>>    - Accounts are open on the date of the first transaction
>>    - Gnucash's hidden accounts are considered closed. I added close
>>    directives for these.
>>    - Accounts are closed on the day after the last transaction
>>    - Skipping of Gnucash's placeholder accounts
>>    - Commodity precision is retrieved from Gnucash
>>
>> If anyone is interested, please give it a whirl. The code is at
>> https://github.com/AndrewStein/gnucash-to-beancount
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, August 31, 2017 at 2:03:11 AM UTC-5, Martin Blais wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 2:05 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Okay, I was finally able to run bean-check without any errors. I will
>>>> write down things I did in hopes that it will help someone else. I wouldn't
>>>> have been able to do with without folks on the IRC channel, they were
>>>> really helpful.
>>>>
>>>
>>> That's great!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> The gnucash-to-beancount script opens all the accounts at the beginning
>>>> of the file but on some accounts the dates are later then some of the
>>>> transactions in the file, which produces the inactive account error. I
>>>> changed the dates for the opening statements to when the earliest
>>>> transaction was for that account. Then basically iterate this for the rest
>>>> of the accounts with the same error.
>>>>
>>>
>>> This would cause the second error you reported indeed. Beancount ignores
>>> the location of the directives in the file (on purpose).
>>>
>>>
>>> Another big problem was that fact that I had a lot of account names that
>>>> are valid in gnucash which aren't valid in beancount.
>>>>   * Accounts starting with lowercase
>>>>   * Accounts starting with numbers
>>>>   * Accounts with & in their name (e.g., Expenses:Gas-&-Electric)
>>>>   * Accounts with apostrophes
>>>>
>>>
>>> That's correct.
>>> I think the converter script could be modified to make reasonable
>>> account name conversions.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wednesday, August 30, 2017 at 9:31:16 AM UTC-7, [email protected]
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> For what it's worth I have also tried gnucash2ledger and then
>>>>> ledger2beancount, but I get similar errors.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wednesday, August 30, 2017 at 9:26:08 AM UTC-7, [email protected]
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'd love to try beancount but I seem to be stuck trying to convert my
>>>>>> data from gnucash. I am using https://github.com/debanjum/gn
>>>>>> ucash-to-beancount to convert 4 years of gnucash data. When I run
>>>>>> bean-check on the result file, I get a ton of errors that look like
>>>>>>
>>>>>> /home/user1/beancount/foo.beancount:4505:    Invalid token: 'taxed'
>>>>>> /home/user1/beancount/foo.beancount:4517:    syntax error, unexpected 
>>>>>> COLON, expecting EOL or COMMENT or ATAT or AT
>>>>>> /home/user1/beancount/foo.beancount:4517:    Invalid token: 'k'
>>>>>> /home/user1/beancount/foo.beancount:4522:    Invalid token: 'taxed'
>>>>>> /home/user1/beancount/foo.beancount:4532:    syntax error, unexpected 
>>>>>> COLON, expecting EOL or COMMENT or ATAT or AT
>>>>>> /home/user1/beancount/foo.beancount:4532:    Invalid token: 'k'
>>>>>> /home/user1/beancount/foo.beancount:4537:    Invalid token: 'taxed'
>>>>>> /home/user1/beancount/foo.beancount:4547:    syntax error, unexpected 
>>>>>> COLON, expecting EOL or COMMENT or ATAT or AT
>>>>>> /home/user1/beancount/foo.beancount:4547:    Invalid token: 'k'
>>>>>> /home/user1/beancount/foo.beancount:4552:    Invalid token: 'taxed'
>>>>>> /home/user1/beancount/foo.beancount:4566:    syntax error, unexpected 
>>>>>> COLON, expecting EOL or COMMENT or ATAT or AT
>>>>>> /home/user1/beancount/foo.beancount:4566:    Invalid token: 'k'
>>>>>> /home/user1/beancount/foo.beancount:4571:    Invalid token: 'taxed'
>>>>>> /home/user1/beancount/foo.beancount:4581:    syntax error, unexpected 
>>>>>> COLON, expecting EOL or COMMENT or ATAT or AT
>>>>>> /home/user1/beancount/foo.beancount:4581:    Invalid token: 'k'
>>>>>> /home/user1/beancount/foo.beancount:4586:    Invalid token: 'taxed'
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> followed by a ton of results like this
>>>>>>
>>>>>> /home/user1/beancount/foo.beancount:1168:    Invalid reference to
>>>>>> inactive account 'Expenses:House:Appliances-and-Furniture'
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    2014-011-06 * "AMAZON.COM          AMZN.COM/BI - Vornado fan"
>>>>>>      notes: "OFX ext. info: |Trans type:Generic debit|Memo:FOOBAR
>>>>>> MERCHANDISE"
>>>>>>      num: "12345023456233"
>>>>>>      Liabilities:American-Express             -107.760 USD
>>>>>>        memo: "FOOBAR MERCHANDISE"
>>>>>>      Expenses:House:Appliances-and-Furniture   107.760 USD
>>>>>>
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