[Leaplist] Accouting software -- 6 things to know about Linux (and why to consider Apple)

[Chris]

William Warren wrote:

> no I want to be able to download my banking statements form my bank 
> into the app.  I will never directly link a website to my checking 
> account..:)
>
> Fred Moore wrote:
>
>> On Thursday 16 November 2006 9:26 am, William Warren wrote:
>>
>>> what about interfacing with banks?  I don't see that feature listed.
>>> Frankly for now I could most likely live without it..but it would be
>>> nice to have.  Nice package i have to give it a whirl..<G>
>>
>>
Have any programming ability? If you can hack a little in python, it's 
not hard,
actually, it's kind of fun, and at least using an open-source package 
integration
gets much easier.
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Here's an example of interfacing with Paypal:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/456361
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And this guy's apparently doing some very Python-integrated stuff

from:
http://sabren.com/?m=200504

"So? All my code is written in python, including the stuff that talks to my
billing system. When you submit a payment, the python code talks to my bank,
which talks to your bank, and then if everything goes well, the message gets
back to the python script which records the transaction in my system."
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I handle UPS e-manifesting for one client using pure Python - it's not
hard. And, since you gave me the idea, I'm mucking around with my
credit union's online statements, which I'll probably just dump to
CSV files - although I've already got a postgresql server running - might
as well just dump it there. Hmmm.

Cheers,

Chris