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

[Magnus Lycka]

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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