Description: Learn how to build a simple, privacy-aware, and developer-friendly workflow to keep your personal finances in check.
Learn how to build a simple , privacy-aware , and developer-friendly workflow using Python to keep your personal finances in check.
In this book, we'll work on building your personalized "multi-banking" application powered entirely using Python and a bunch of plain text files.
The Python ecosystem contains an excellent package called Beancount which provides the foundations for working with money. At its core, Beancount provides a collection of command line utilities to manage and perform different kinds of analysis on financial transactions stored in plain-text files.