[Tutor] Question on Python and OFX (Open Financial Exchange)

[andy surany]

Ok, I got a good handle on LibOFX from the author. But what is SWIG??

-Andy
-----Original Message-----
From: Magnus Lycka <magnus@thinkware.se>
To: andy surany <mongo57a@comcast.net>; tutor@python.org
<tutor@python.org>
Date: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 4:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Question on Python and OFX (Open Financial
Exchange)


>At 13:24 2002-11-06 -0500, andy surany wrote:
>>Has anyone on the list ever accessed an OFX file directly from a web
>>site using a python program?
>
>Not yet! :)
>
>It's SGML as far as I understand. Parsing SGML is not
>for the faint hearted. That's basically why XML was
>invented.
>
>Have you seen http://step.polymtl.ca/~bock/libofx/
>
>The best and simplest solution is probably to write a
>wrapper for that. SWIG might be helpful for that.
>
>As far as I understand, this hasn't been done, at
>least I can't find any reference to it. Here's your
>chance to contribute to Python's usefulness in the
>finance sector!
>
>
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