Martin Blais wrote: ... > If you want to be pedantic create a transfer account and make it two > transactions, one to the transfer account, and one from it. > Beancount doesn't support doing this automatically, but it's a small > project one day that it will (mainly for credit card to bank transactions).
that's pretty much what i ended up doing after realizing i wanted both transactions in each file because they let me book things in the CC account ledger to specific Expenses. i call the account in between a Pass-Through account so the value should stay somewhere around zero but not always. in good news that means i've mostly got my trans- actions for the banks imported. just a few small files left that won't take too long. the longer term project will be to get all the older files converted and that will take some time, some of them are typed in already i just have to change their format into beancount entries and what i'm learning for my current project will make that much easier. petl has a tab separated import and that will be easy for me to use as i can convert my files from | separated fields to tab separated fields in a few moments... the brokerage account is a csv format and nothing i've tried has worked easily enough so today i looked at petl and i like how it is a direct and self-contained light- weight set of things to use so i'm learning that and already got it to load up my transactions to a table. now i have to do the rest of the conversions and processing on those but it won't be too difficult as there are decent enough examples in the documentation and in the example files themselves. one thing i ran into that was strange to me and took some time to figure out was that when printing a table on the terminal it was only showing me a part of the table and not the whole thing and i thought that meant the rows were not being imported into the table, but after a while i found out how to count rows per file and to print the whole thing out, number of fields per line and such, etc. so it was working fine the whole time. that's what learning is all about though. :) i don't mind this kind of hacking and learning in the winter months. :) fin -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/77g9aj-rnf.ln1%40anthive.com.
