Hi Daniele,
Thanks for the 'modern' suggestion.
But based on the strongly worded suggestion from Martin, I'll also share a
script that loads all transactions into a pandas dataframe (thanks to ChatGPT).
Further processing on this dataframe lets me do anything I want...
-k.
#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
Extract (date, from, to, amount, currency, description) rows from Beancount
ledger with date as a pandas‑friendly datetime index.
"""
import sys
from pathlib import Path
from typing import List, Tuple
import pandas as pd
from beancount.loader import load_file
from beancount.core.data import Transaction, Posting
Row = Tuple[str, str, str, float, str, str] # (date, from, to, amount,
currency, description)
def pair_postings(date: str, description: str, postings: List[Posting]) ->
List[Row]:
"""
For all postings of the same currency in a transaction, pair debits
(negative)
with credits (positive) and emit (date, from, to, amount, currency,
description) rows.
"""
pos = [p for p in postings if p.units and p.units.number > 0]
neg = [p for p in postings if p.units and p.units.number < 0]
rows: List[Row] = []
while pos and neg:
p_from = neg[0]
p_to = pos[0]
amt = min(abs(p_from.units.number), p_to.units.number)
currency = p_from.units.currency
rows.append((date, p_from.account, p_to.account, amt, currency,
description))
# Decrement amounts
p_from =
p_from._replace(units=p_from.units._replace(number=p_from.units.number + amt))
p_to = p_to._replace(units=p_to.units._replace(number=p_to.units.number
- amt))
if p_from.units.number == 0:
neg.pop(0)
else:
neg[0] = p_from
if p_to.units.number == 0:
pos.pop(0)
else:
pos[0] = p_to
return rows
def ledger_to_dataframe(path: Path | str) -> pd.DataFrame:
entries, errors, _ = load_file(str(path))
if errors:
for e in errors:
print(e, file=sys.stderr)
rows: List[Row] = []
for entry in entries:
if not isinstance(entry, Transaction):
continue
description = entry.payee or ""
if entry.narration:
if description:
description += " "
description += entry.narration
by_currency: dict[str, List[Posting]] = {}
for p in entry.postings:
if p.units:
by_currency.setdefault(p.units.currency, []).append(p)
for plist in by_currency.values():
rows.extend(pair_postings(entry.date, description, plist))
df = pd.DataFrame(rows, columns=["date", "from", "to", "amount",
"currency", "description"])
df["date"] = pd.to_datetime(df["date"]).dt.normalize()
df["amount"] = df["amount"].astype(float)
df = df.set_index('date')
return df
if __name__ == "__main__":
if len(sys.argv) != 2:
sys.exit("Usage: python txns_to_dataframe.py /path/to/ledger.beancount")
df = ledger_to_dataframe(Path(sys.argv[1]).expanduser())
print(df.head())
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