Ha ha, I also overlooked include globbing in limabean, and only fixed it
there last week. 😅

https://github.com/tesujimath/limabean/issues/35

What a flurry of activity! 🚀

On Fri, 27 Feb 2026, 9:28 am 'Moritz Drexl' via Beancount, <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Ah, good to know, I wasn't aware of this feature. Will add it to the
> backlog (both the glob syntax and better error message).
>
> On Friday, February 27, 2026 at 9:06:21 AM UTC+13 [email protected] wrote:
>
>> On Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 8:46:12 AM UTC+10:30
>> [email protected] wrote:
>>
>> Hi, thanks for giving it a try! I am using a Mac myself so I tried
>> reproducing your problem in a Ubuntu/Linux VM but it seems to be working
>> fine. Are you sure that my.bean exists in your current working directory?
>> TurboBean is always looking for files relative to the CWD. If it still
>> doesn't work could you provide more details about your system, where
>> my.bean, turbobean is located and what your CWD is?
>>
>>
>> Yep, pretty sure :-)
>>
>> I've since tried it again and the problem is turbobean doesn't fully
>> understand beancount's include syntax, so it fails to load my bean file. In
>> an ideal world the error message would have been clearer (perhaps a line
>> number where the error occurred?) but I realise this is version 0.2 of a
>> personal project.
>>
>> beancount allows globs in the include and turbobean doesn't, e.g.
>>
>> include "archived/*.bean"
>>
>> Admittedly a quick scan of beancount documentation doesn't seem to spell
>> this out but loader_test.py has explicit tests to ensure it works
>> (test_glob_relative, test_glob_relative_abs, test_glob_relative_mixed).
>>
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