On Sat, 20 Oct 2012 08:51:12 -0700, "John Wiegley" <jwieg...@gmail.com> wrote: ... > You can manipulate the data structures in Python, but you'd have to write the > whole file back out with a "print". However, this drops information. At the > moment this is no way to perform an information-preserving transformation, > since that has never been a feature of Ledger.
I am slightly stunned as I have always seen "print" as a way to, for example, re-order a file. In fact, from the 2.6 manual: The `print' command prints out ledger entries in a textual format that can be parsed by Ledger. They will be properly formatted, and output in the most economic form possible. The "print" command also takes a list of optional regexps, which will cause only those transactions which match in some way to be printed. The `print' command can be a handy way to clean up a ledger file whose formatting has gotten out of hand. So when did it start dropping information and why? What information does it drop? Eric -- ms fnd in a lbry
