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Re:Beancount: Double-entry accounting from text files by NoboruWataya on Sunday January 30, 2022 @02:03PM (#30140013)
> gnucash requires learning some niche scheme stuff; it feels very "tacked on".

There is also piecash, which gives a nice Pythonic interface to the SQL files generated by GnuCash: https://pypi.org/project/piecash/

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Re:Beancount: Double-entry accounting from text files by rmbyrro on Monday January 31, 2022 @02:14AM (#30145391)
Bear in mind that using SQL in GnuCash may result in data loss:

> Note this feature is considered experimental. It works for most of the common use cases but some corner cases have been reported to result in data loss. [1]

[1] https://gnucash.org/features.phtml

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