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://"+FILE
	quotes_historic.f = open('INTC')
list	quotes_historic.data = []
	quotes_historic.tmp = f.readline()
list	quotes_historic.stock_date = []
list	quotes_historic.stock_price = []
	quotes_historic.year = int(data[i].rsplit(',')[1].rsplit('/')[0])
	quotes_historic.month = int(data[i].rsplit(',')[1].rsplit('/')[1])
	quotes_historic.day = int(data[i].rsplit(',')[1].rsplit('/')[2])
	quotes_historic.session = Session(url)
	quotes_historic.root = session.book.get_root_account()
	quotes_historic.book = session.book
	quotes_historic.account = book.get_root_account()
	quotes_historic.pdb = book.get_price_db()
	quotes_historic.comm_table = book.get_table()
	quotes_historic.ac = find_account(account, 'Intel')[0]
	quotes_historic.stock = ac.GetCommodity()
	quotes_historic.cur = comm_table.lookup("CURRENCY", "USD")
	quotes_historic.price_denom = cur.get_fraction() * COMMODITY_DENOM_MULT
	quotes_historic.p_new = GncPrice(book)

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: https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Stocks/get_prices

Definition in file quotes_historic.py.