It looks like the Flattening Inventories in Beancount - Query Language (
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s0GOZMcrKKCLlP29MD7kHO4L88evrwWdIO0p4EwRBE0/edit#heading=h.agpdf4fbvn2)
covers the use case you want. Unfortunately it's a future feature.

I wonder how hard it would be to implement...

On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 11:16 PM Martin Blais <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 10:49 PM, Justus Pendleton <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday, January 3, 2018 at 8:12:09 PM UTC+7, Martin Blais wrote:
>> > In any case that should not fail either so there's a bug
>>
>> With a bit more playing around, I think I understand what beancount is
>> doing but I'm still not clear on how to achieve what I want. Using the same
>> sample beanfile as in my original post, if I just do SELECT currency,
>> number, cost(position), value(position) then beancount tells me
>>
>> curre num cost_posit value_posi
>> ----- --- ---------- ----------
>> VWIUX 1 14.09 USD 14.11 USD
>> USD -14 -14.09 USD -14.09 USD
>> VWIUX 1 14.23 USD 14.11 USD
>> USD -14 -14.23 USD -14.23 USD
>> VWIUX 1 14.32 USD 14.11 USD
>> USD -14 -14.32 USD -14.32 USD
>> VWIUX -1 -14.09 USD -14.11 USD
>> VWIUX -1 -14.23 USD -14.11 USD
>> VWIUX -1 -14.32 USD -14.11 USD
>> USD 42 42.64 USD 42.64 USD
>>
>> So I guess the key/problem is that the "number" isn't being treated the
>> way I expected. Taking the $14.09 lot as an example, I expected it to have
>> a single entry with a number of 0. But it actually has 2 entries, one with
>> a number of +1 and one with a number of -1.
>>
>> Now that I see what's happening, I guess I understand why. bean-query is
>> showing me postings, not lots.
>>
>
> Yes
>
>
>
>> I guess I need to build up an inventory on my own?
>>
>
> You can use sum(position)
>
>
>
>
>> But I'm not sure that bean-query is flexible enough to let me do what I
>> want here and only look at lots that still exist and are under water. So
>> I'm back to being stumped about how to proceed. Do I just need to drop into
>> python to get what I want?
>>
>
> I don't think you do, use select sum(position) and you should be on your
> way, if you want to drop to Python accumulate the Position instances to an
> Inventory and print those contents
>
> (Sorry for the lack of detail, I'm dealing with a newborn situation.)
>
>
>
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Justus
>>
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