CapitalGainsCalc Reviews

Hey Rob, You are my freakin hero, man. :) This script didn't work right off the bat for me, but after learning some Python and messing around for a couple of hours, I finally got it output, imported into TurboTax and everything. Really awesome! The biggest hurdle was that my server only supported up to Python v2.6 and your script requires v2.7 or higher. I don't like to custom compile on my servers, so I spent some time making your script backwards compatible with Python 2.6 and earlier. Now, a lot more people should be able to use it without too much fuss. The only thing I noticed that seemed "off" was the remainingLots csv. It was not comma-separated. I could not really distinguish what was in it, and in my case, there shouldn't have been any lots remaining because I sold them all. For reference, here are my changes to make this script compatible with Python pre-2.7: Search in both py files: writer.writeheader() Replace: # writer.writeheader() # Requires python 2.7 (as of 03/16/2016, not available via yum) writer.writerow(dict(zip(fieldnames,fieldnames))) Note: Due to "total_seconds" not being available in Python before v2.7, I also had to add a substitute function and modify the if statement calling it. In convertBuySellTransactionsToTXF.py, add: def total_seconds(td): # Keep backward compatibility with Python 2.6 which doesn't have # this method if hasattr(td, 'total_seconds'): return td.total_seconds() else: return (td.microseconds + (td.seconds + td.days * 24 * 3600) * 10**6) / 10**6 Then search: if diff.total_seconds() > 365*24*3600: Replace: # if diff.total_seconds() > 365*24*3600: # not supported before Python 2.7, yields AttributeError: 'datetime.timedelta' object has no attribute 'total_seconds' if total_seconds(diff) > 365*24*3600: Note: The tool expects the date to be %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S (Ex: 2015-1-1 19:46:00) but Coinbase outputs %m/%d/%Y %H:%M. Be sure to convert the dates in Excel (easier than writing Python code to convert it!) and save the file as coinbase.csv. The Excel custom date format is: 'yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss'. After giving this some thought, I figured out that I could also modify the date format support to avoid converting the dates in Excel first. In convertBuySellTransactionsToTXF.py, search: dateFormats = [ datefmt, '%m/%d/%y', '%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%y %H:%M %p', '%m/%d/%Y %H:%M %p', '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'] Replace: dateFormats = [ datefmt, '%m/%d/%Y %H:%M', '%m/%d/%y', '%Y-%m-%d', '%m/%d/%y %H:%M %p', '%m/%d/%Y %H:%M %p', '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'] Thanks for doing all the heavy lifting! Cheers, Brandon p.s. Sorry it's all jacked up. Looks like sourceforge really messes up the formatting of reviews. :(