[djhworld]

I'm not really sure about the python aspect in this article however I've been using beancount and Fava for nearly 3 years now and it's one of my favourite pieces of software. Outside of installing it I've never had to really think about python.

All of my financial history is contained in a text file processed by beancount and long may it continue!

One thing I do wonder though is how well it scales, I'm a single man so tracking everything isn't too much effort but if I had a partner it suddenly becomes at least 50% more things to track

[remram]

You didn't have to write any Python to import transactions from your bank?

[aquark]

I have some custom code to convert CSV files downloaded from my bank to beancounts text format, but it is all dotNet code since that is what I know the text format is easy to work with

[siddhant]

That's actually a good point.

You only need to write Python code if you're using the Beancount importers framework and intend to use bean-identify and/or bean-extract.