Using bean-query programmatically

[Chary Chary]

All documentation about bean-query assumes, that query is issues manually from command line and then output is also read from the screen.

But what if I want to use bean-query engine programmatically? 

Meaning that I would issue bean-query from my python script, capture output and then will do something else with this output.

What is the best way to do this? 

[Martin Michlmayr]

* Chary Chary <char...@gmail.com> [2020-08-10 05:21]:

> All documentation about bean-query assumes, that query is issues
> manually from command line and then output is also read from the
> screen.

I think that is because in most cases you'd use the Python API to do
the things you want to do directly.

> But what if I want to use bean-query engine programmatically?

Look at query.run_query()

Examples that make use of it are:

beancount/plugins/split_expenses.py
experiments/misc/monthly_balance.py

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Martin Michlmayr
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[Chary Chary]

Martin,

thanks!