Ledger also doesn't natively export lot prices. We need lot prices to compute
capital gains. They are locked in my ledger files. How to get them out?
It turns out that if you learn ledger's language for output formatting, and
learn how to craft a custom --csv-format string, it's possible to make ledger
export verbose posting amounts (like "4 btc {$359} [12-21-1394]"), but then
your spreadsheet has that whole string in a column. And you have to parse it to
get the $359. This is a lot of work just to get my lot price data out of
ledger. I feel trapped.
It would be much nicer if there was an output code for lot price, and if ledger
didn't require you to write your own --csv-format string to get it, and just
put the lot price in its own column in the exported CSV file, and if there was
an output code for a transaction ID, that ledger exported as a column as well.
The only way I see to get transaction data out of ledger is to do a lisp
export. I actually implemented a sexpression parser in python in order to parse
the output and convert it to CSV or JSON. But it crashed my parser. Then I
tried evaluating the sexpression in emacs, and emacs segfaulted. So I dunno.
But even if that worked, I'd have had to parse the lot prices from strings.
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