quotes_historic.py File Reference

Example Script to read historic stock data into gnucash. More...

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Variables
string	quotes_historic::FILE = "./test.gnucash"
string	quotes_historic::url = "xml://"
tuple	quotes_historic::f = open('INTC')
list	quotes_historic::data = []
tuple	quotes_historic::tmp = f.readline()
list	quotes_historic::stock_date = []
list	quotes_historic::stock_price = []
tuple	quotes_historic::year = int(data[i].rsplit(',')[1].rsplit('/')[0])
tuple	quotes_historic::month = int(data[i].rsplit(',')[1].rsplit('/')[1])
tuple	quotes_historic::day = int(data[i].rsplit(',')[1].rsplit('/')[2])
tuple	quotes_historic::session = Session(url, True, False, False)
tuple	quotes_historic::root = session.book.get_root_account()
	quotes_historic::book = session.book
tuple	quotes_historic::account = book.get_root_account()
tuple	quotes_historic::pdb = book.get_price_db()
tuple	quotes_historic::comm_table = book.get_table()
tuple	quotes_historic::ac = find_account(account,'Intel')
tuple	quotes_historic::stock = ac.GetCommodity()
tuple	quotes_historic::cur = ac.GetSplitList()
tuple	quotes_historic::pl = pdb.get_prices(stock,cur)
list	quotes_historic::pl0 = pl[0]
tuple	quotes_historic::p_new = pl0.clone(book)
tuple	quotes_historic::v = p_new.get_value()

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Detailed Description

Example Script to read historic stock data into gnucash.

Author:

Peter Holtermann

Date:

January 2011

Call the perl-script

   ./get_quotes.pl INTC 

first to achieve data into file INTC which can thereafter be imported to GnuCash using this script.

For explanation of use have a look at the wiki: http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Stocks/get_prices

Definition in file quotes_historic.py.