Hello Tony! Am 18.01.2011 23:04, schrieb Anthony Dardis: > I'm a little confused here. If you are writing something that lets you, the > user, type stuff in to cause the machine to tell you things about your > GnuCash data, then there's really not a question about how to program the > displaying: that's a decision to make about the thing you are writing. Unless > you are using a Python interpreter (IDLE, iPython) as your user interface: if > you are, then the question is about coding ... That's the point. > > If the question is, which is best for coding, that depends on how you want to > code it. If you like Python classes and object-oriented programming, then > design and write classes that have display methods, and then the instances > can display themselves. If you are less comfortable with OOP and classes, or > for some other reason the design of this project says don't use classes, then > write a function to display the object and pass the object to it. Neither is > better or more practicable than the other. Nice to see that searching for the best solution opens a space for creation ;-) I just did a first approach in one of the directions by writing a __str__ function for GncNumeric. The Patch can be found at [1]. I wonder what's possible in the future ;-) > > Hope that helps, Tony Thanks, yes,
bye, Christoph [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=639906 _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
