gramps

Look at any of the reports in the /usr/share/gramps/plugins directory.
The biggest trick is that the data is not stored in memory - you have to
pull the data from the underlying db. The reports should show good
examples.

Or look at http://developers.gramps-project.org/tiki-index.php?page=3DUsing=
TheDatabase

Or http://developers.gramps-project.org/tiki-index.php?page=3DReportTutoria=
l

They might be a bit dated.

If you can handle Perl, python should be trivial. I saw a good .sig
several years ago:

   Python: executable pseudocode=20
   Perl: executable line noise

Don

On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 17:01 -0500, Warren Pollans wrote:
> Hello again,
>=20
> Could someone please send me a simple script that I could use to read
> the persons db from the commandline?  I don't speak python, but I am
> fluent in both perl and ruby.  If someone could provide a template for
> me, I'd appreciate it.  I've just started looking thru the docs on the
> developer's wiki - and hope to understand how gramps works before too
> long.  I'm using gramps and I'm pretty happy with it.
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Warren,

On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 17:01 -0500, Warren Pollans wrote:
> Could someone please send me a simple script that I could use to read
> the persons db from the commandline?  I don't speak python, but I am
> fluent in both perl and ruby.  If someone could provide a template for
> me, I'd appreciate it.  I've just started looking thru the docs on the
> developer's wiki - and hope to understand how gramps works before too
> long.  I'm using gramps and I'm pretty happy with it.

I am a little unclear as to what exactly you want to do:
1. Have a python script to extract data as python objects
   in terms of Gramps-defined classes?
2. Have a shell script to print some data on stdout?
   If so, which data? Names? Birthdates?
3. Something else?

Number 1 gives you all the flexibility, but you have to
then work with python classes in python. Number 2 may work
with names and IDs, but for anything else somebody
has to write python code to do that.

Let us know what you meant,
Alex

--=20
Alexander Roitman   http://www.gramps-project.org

This started because I wanted to ask family members to help supply
missing information for the database I've started to maintain.  For
example, there are several people (wives) for whom I have no last name.
 I could use a filter to get the records for these people (wives with no
last name), but I couldn't figure out how to generate a list of names
that I could include in mail requesting help - so I thought that I might
be able to query the DB directly (#2 below) - something like "select all
people where last_name_of_spouse = ''".  I don't want to have go to each
record (using gramps) to get the information I need - I want to generate
the list and copy-and-paste it into the mail.

Alex Roitman wrote:
> Warren,
> 
> On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 17:01 -0500, Warren Pollans wrote:
>> Could someone please send me a simple script that I could use to read
>> the persons db from the commandline?  I don't speak python, but I am
>> fluent in both perl and ruby.  If someone could provide a template for
>> me, I'd appreciate it.  I've just started looking thru the docs on the
>> developer's wiki - and hope to understand how gramps works before too
>> long.  I'm using gramps and I'm pretty happy with it.
> 
> I am a little unclear as to what exactly you want to do:
> 1. Have a python script to extract data as python objects
>    in terms of Gramps-defined classes?
> 2. Have a shell script to print some data on stdout?
>    If so, which data? Names? Birthdates?
> 3. Something else?
> 
> Number 1 gives you all the flexibility, but you have to
> then work with python classes in python. Number 2 may work
> with names and IDs, but for anything else somebody
> has to write python code to do that.
> 
> Let us know what you meant,
> Alex
>

> This started because I wanted to ask family members to help supply
> missing information for the database I've started to maintain.  For
> example, there are several people (wives) for whom I have no last name.
>  I could use a filter to get the records for these people (wives with n=
o
> last name), but I couldn't figure out how to generate a list of names
> that I could include in mail requesting help - so I thought that I migh=
t
> be able to query the DB directly (#2 below) - something like "select al=
l
> people where last_name_of_spouse =3D ''".  I don't want to have go to e=
ach
> record (using gramps) to get the information I need - I want to generat=
e
> the list and copy-and-paste it into the mail.

Warren,

A simplified SQL-like interface for query and updates would be very
useful, and I hope that we can build that at some point. That would go fa=
r
in interfacing the DB (without the GUI) for other uses (web interface, fo=
r
example). Do you know Python? :)

-Doug

> Alex Roitman wrote:
>> Warren,
>>
>> On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 17:01 -0500, Warren Pollans wrote:
>>> Could someone please send me a simple script that I could use to read
>>> the persons db from the commandline?  I don't speak python, but I am
>>> fluent in both perl and ruby.  If someone could provide a template fo=
r
>>> me, I'd appreciate it.  I've just started looking thru the docs on th=
e
>>> developer's wiki - and hope to understand how gramps works before too
>>> long.  I'm using gramps and I'm pretty happy with it.
>>
>> I am a little unclear as to what exactly you want to do:
>> 1. Have a python script to extract data as python objects
>>    in terms of Gramps-defined classes?
>> 2. Have a shell script to print some data on stdout?
>>    If so, which data? Names? Birthdates?
>> 3. Something else?
>>
>> Number 1 gives you all the flexibility, but you have to
>> then work with python classes in python. Number 2 may work
>> with names and IDs, but for anything else somebody
>> has to write python code to do that.
>>
>> Let us know what you meant,
>> Alex
>>
>
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Sounds like you are looking for our Custom Filter Editor. Select=20
Tools->Utilities->Custom Filter Editor

Create (add) a new filter.=20
Add a rule from General Filters->People with the <name>
Set the Family Name to whatever you want.
Save the new filter.

If you then select "Test", you will see who the filter matches. This
filter can then be used when generating reports or exporting data.

Don

On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 21:31 -0500, Warren Pollans wrote:
> This started because I wanted to ask family members to help supply
> missing information for the database I've started to maintain.  For
> example, there are several people (wives) for whom I have no last name.
>  I could use a filter to get the records for these people (wives with no
> last name), but I couldn't figure out how to generate a list of names
> that I could include in mail requesting help - so I thought that I might
> be able to query the DB directly (#2 below) - something like "select all
> people where last_name_of_spouse =3D ''".  I don't want to have go to eac=
h
> record (using gramps) to get the information I need - I want to generate
> the list and copy-and-paste it into the mail.
>=20
> Alex Roitman wrote:
> > Warren,
> >=20
> > On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 17:01 -0500, Warren Pollans wrote:
> >> Could someone please send me a simple script that I could use to read
> >> the persons db from the commandline?  I don't speak python, but I am
> >> fluent in both perl and ruby.  If someone could provide a template for
> >> me, I'd appreciate it.  I've just started looking thru the docs on the
> >> developer's wiki - and hope to understand how gramps works before too
> >> long.  I'm using gramps and I'm pretty happy with it.
> >=20
> > I am a little unclear as to what exactly you want to do:
> > 1. Have a python script to extract data as python objects
> >    in terms of Gramps-defined classes?
> > 2. Have a shell script to print some data on stdout?
> >    If so, which data? Names? Birthdates?
> > 3. Something else?
> >=20
> > Number 1 gives you all the flexibility, but you have to
> > then work with python classes in python. Number 2 may work
> > with names and IDs, but for anything else somebody
> > has to write python code to do that.
> >=20
> > Let us know what you meant,
> > Alex
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Don Allingham <donaldallingham@...>

I hadn't noticed the "test" button - that'll work for me.  In fact,
there's a "people with spouses that have incomplete names" custom filter
that generates just the list I need.

Thank you very much - I see that I need to do some more exploring and
RTFM  :-)

gramps is great

Don Allingham wrote:
> Sounds like you are looking for our Custom Filter Editor. Select 
> Tools->Utilities->Custom Filter Editor
> 
> Create (add) a new filter. 
> Add a rule from General Filters->People with the <name>
> Set the Family Name to whatever you want.
> Save the new filter.
> 
> If you then select "Test", you will see who the filter matches. This
> filter can then be used when generating reports or exporting data.
> 
> Don
> 
> On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 21:31 -0500, Warren Pollans wrote:
>> This started because I wanted to ask family members to help supply
>> missing information for the database I've started to maintain.  For
>> example, there are several people (wives) for whom I have no last name.
>>  I could use a filter to get the records for these people (wives with no
>> last name), but I couldn't figure out how to generate a list of names
>> that I could include in mail requesting help - so I thought that I might
>> be able to query the DB directly (#2 below) - something like "select all
>> people where last_name_of_spouse = ''".  I don't want to have go to each
>> record (using gramps) to get the information I need - I want to generate
>> the list and copy-and-paste it into the mail.
>>
>> Alex Roitman wrote:
>>> Warren,
>>>
>>> On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 17:01 -0500, Warren Pollans wrote:
>>>> Could someone please send me a simple script that I could use to read
>>>> the persons db from the commandline?  I don't speak python, but I am
>>>> fluent in both perl and ruby.  If someone could provide a template for
>>>> me, I'd appreciate it.  I've just started looking thru the docs on the
>>>> developer's wiki - and hope to understand how gramps works before too
>>>> long.  I'm using gramps and I'm pretty happy with it.
>>> I am a little unclear as to what exactly you want to do:
>>> 1. Have a python script to extract data as python objects
>>>    in terms of Gramps-defined classes?
>>> 2. Have a shell script to print some data on stdout?
>>>    If so, which data? Names? Birthdates?
>>> 3. Something else?
>>>
>>> Number 1 gives you all the flexibility, but you have to
>>> then work with python classes in python. Number 2 may work
>>> with names and IDs, but for anything else somebody
>>> has to write python code to do that.
>>>
>>> Let us know what you meant,
>>> Alex
>>>
>>
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