20131121 (Thursday, 21 November 2013)

Continued Importing legacy data from TIM to Lino

The “Sector” project (Importing legacy data from TIM to Lino and Lino Così) is getting into a final phase! Soon I’ll invite Andreas to a visit.

Some problems yet to solve:

  • the invoices generate only two movements, the one for the vat is missing.

  • how to make get_vat_rate configurable. Should there be a VAT plugin instead of the SiteMixin? It must also receive the date.

Emacs configuration

Actually I wanted to continue with Importing legacy data from TIM to Lino… but (cool:) Emacs now paints everything red that is not compliant with PEP8.

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And of course nobody wants to work in such code! (Joe: “I know it would be quite a change, but I think it is worth the trouble, because Python programmers tend to avoid code not formated using PEP8 or something very similar.”) So I started to manually convert code to look PEP8-compliant. The first victim is lino.projects.presto.fixtures.tim2lino.

Many warnings are about missing whitespace after ‘,’, which I perceive as rather nitpicky. For example:

def load_fin(self,row,**kw):
    self.FINDICT[(jnl,year,number)] = doc

is not compliant. Must be:

def load_fin(self, row, **kw):
    self.FINDICT[(jnl, year, number)] = doc

Maybe there is a way to tell Emacs to ignore certain warnings? Because such changes should rather not come together with “real” changes.

Should I tell Emacs to remove trailing spaces automatically? Here is the same problem: such changes should rather not come together with “real” changes.

Moved docs/settings.py to lino/projects/docs and made it the default settings module for Emacs.

How to actually change/set environment variables from within emacs