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diff --git a/ledger.texi b/ledger.texi index b8da037a..f271f5a1 100644 --- a/ledger.texi +++ b/ledger.texi @@ -64,7 +64,6 @@ OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. * Running Ledger:: * Keeping a ledger:: * Using XML:: -* Extending with Python:: @end menu @node Introduction, Running Ledger, Top, Top @@ -2260,14 +2259,6 @@ precedence order of operators. @item [DATE] Useful specifying a date in plain terms. For example, you could say @samp{[2004/06/01]}. - -@item @@STR(ARGS,...) -If Python support is compiled in, this calls the Python function -@code{STR}. It is always be passed at least one argument, of type -@var{ledger.Details}, representing the known account, entry, and -transaction details at the time the value expression is computed. -Other value expression arguments may also be passed by the user, all -of type @var{Value}. @end table @node Period expressions, File format, Value expressions, Running Ledger @@ -2431,13 +2422,6 @@ transactions that follow, until @samp{!end} is seen. @item !end Ends an account block. - -@item !python -If Python support is available, all of the lines following -@samp{!python} will be passed to the Python interpretor. Any -functions defined will be available to later Python blocks, and can be -called from a value expression. The Python code block must be ended -with @samp{!end}. @end table @item ; @@ -3699,8 +3683,8 @@ description is a ledger account name, these in/out pairs may be viewed as virtual transactions, adding time commodities (hours) to that account. -For example, the command-line version of the timeclock tool (which is -written in Python) could be used to begin a timelog file like: +For example, the command-line version of the timeclock tool could be +used to begin a timelog file like: @example export TIMELOG=$HOME/.timelog @@ -3778,7 +3762,7 @@ accounting ledger, with the attached prefix @samp{Billable}: Receivable:ClientOne @end smallexample -@node Using XML, Extending with Python, Keeping a ledger, Top +@node Using XML, , Keeping a ledger, Top @chapter Using XML By default, Ledger uses a human-readable data format, and displays its @@ -3930,29 +3914,4 @@ output such data if the @command{xml} command is used, and can read the same data as long as the @file{expat} library was available when Ledger was built. -@node Extending with Python, , Using XML, Top -@chapter Extending with Python - -Ledger fully supports Python as an extension language. It may be used -in a few different forms, which fall into three basic categories: - -@enumerate -@item -Defining Python functions to use in value expressions -@item -Using the ledger library as a Python module -@item -Setting up custom initialization using Python -@end enumerate - -Note that this feature, while functional, is still under development. -It will not be documented until it has been fully proven, probably in -the next version of ledger. For now, if you wish to make this of this -functionality and are willing to debug problems that come up, pass the -option @samp{--enable-python} to configure, and contact the author via -email. - -One example of using Python to create a more complex report is in the -script file @file{scripts/trend}. - @bye |