I’ve found autobean-format to be extremely useful.
https://github.com/SEIAROTg/autobean-format#examples
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Brian Lalor (he/him)
bla...@bravo5.org
> On Jun 17, 2025, at 1:58 AM, Paul Walker <wpau...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Interesting! I had my own need for this recently, but with a requirement to
> "fix" currency columns/spacing. The script gets pretty short if you leverage
> some internal methods, but this also ends up stripping comments and filling
> in empty/inferred posting amounts. It looks like yours would preserve more
> context by more or less splitting on date. I ended up with this plus some
> messy logic to regextract my fava currency-column option:
>
> import sys
> from beancount.loader import load_file
> from beancount.parser import printer
> from beancount.scripts import format
>
> def main(file):
> entries, errors, options = load_file(file)
>
> entries_sorted = sorted(entries, key=lambda x: x.date)
>
> # Or if you don't need formatting, just
> printer.print_entries(entries_sorted, file=file)
> with open(file, 'w') as f:
> # Enumerate to get "last" entry to skip extra inter-directive newline
> for i, entry in enumerate(entries_sorted):
> printed = printer.format_entry(entry)
> # Align the printed entry with a currency column, set or grab
> from options (e.g. Fava)
> formatted = format.align_beancount(printed, currency_column=61)
> f.write(formatted)
> if i != len(entries_sorted) - 1:
> f.write('\n')
>
> if __name__ == "__main__":
> if len(sys.argv) != 2:
> print("Usage: python bean-sort.py <beancount-file>")
> sys.exit(1)
> main(sys.argv[1])
>
> Thanks for sharing!
> Paul
>
> On Monday, June 16, 2025 at 9:56:26 PM UTC-4 Simon Guest wrote:
>> And now the repo is public. 🤭
>>
>> On Tue, 17 Jun 2025 at 12:23, Simon Guest <s...@cantab.net <>> wrote:
>>> I made a naive sorting utility for Beancount. I hunted for such a thing
>>> and failed to find one, which surprised me.
>>>
>>> Anyway, it was quicker to write a few lines of Python than keep wondering
>>> whether or why this hadn't been done before.
>>>
>>> Here in case it helps anyone else.
>>>
>>> https://github.com/tesujimath/bean-sort
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> Simon
>
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