Henry,
I may have misunderstood your bug report at first...
On 11 June 2009 at 15:01, henryb...@fsfe.org wrote:
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| On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 06:43:31AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
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| > On 11 June 2009 at 10:07, henryb...@fsfe.org wrote:
| > | I am having problem adding the currency "SEK" (Swedish Kroner) to
| > | beancounter.
| > |
| > | - I added the stock HEXA-B.ST quoted on the Stockholm exchange
How? This is critically important because if you do
beancounter addstock HEXA-B.ST
we may not have added information on its currency. On the other hand, if you do
beancounter addportfolio HEXA-B.ST:100:SEK:foo:bar:73.50:20090611
(here foo and bar are portfolio 'label' and 'owner'; you can pick whatever
you want there -- and I assumed that today's close of 73.50 was your cost of
purchase)
then you end up with SEK as a currency we know and care about. This matters,
as only currencies with portfolio positions are retrieved by default!
| > | - I then ran the command "beancounter update"
| > | - I then ran the command "beancounter --extrafx SEK"
Wrong -- you need
beancounter --extrafx SEK update
to tell update to pull everything it things it needs, and then tell it to
also get SEK. [ If you do addportfolio as above, then you no longer need the
--extrafx FOO optional argument. ]
| > | - I then ran the command "beancounter fxbackpopulate SEK"
That's just gravy we can ignore.
| > | and various permutations and combinations of the above with and without
| > | dates
| > |
| > | The only error message I get is
| > | ** Ignoring SEK which is not currently known to the internal tables
| > |
| > | If I check the currency tables then the only currencies shown are EUR
| > | and CAD.
| > |
| > | Question: how do I add SEK (and a couple of other currencies)?
See above. Maybe we are good after all.
| > It's messy. I think the Yahoo interface is broken, but I never sat down and
| > wrote something real good to replace it.
| >
| > I have some code I use that goes to OandA.com, but last I checked, that site
| > also had some shortcomings. I think mostly for testing I currently follow
| > these three:
| >
| > beancounter=# select distinct currency from fxprices where date >=
'2009-06-01';
| > currency
| > ----------
| > AUD
| > CAD
| > EUR
| > (3 rows)
| >
| > If you have some time and a little knowledge of Perl and SQL we could try to
| > fix things up a little.
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| VERY little knowledge of PERL and SQL but willing to learn
Good good good, you may well end up doing some really useful testing.
Cheers, Dirk
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