PyMoney

User Manual

PyMoney is a personal financial assistant for personal use. It canhelp you with your family budget, for instance. The program can workwith several accounts in different currencies, transfer money from oneaccount to another.

The program is highly portable, cause it is written in Python language using PyQt library. This version is intended to use on Sharp Zaurus PDA, but also works on any UNIX-like system with Python >= 2.3, Qt version2.3 or 3 and PyQt installed. It has been tested on Debian andRedHat 9. On Sharp Zaurus it uses Qtopia environment.

To keep portability, it does not use any DBMS, such as MySQL orSQLite. It has its own simple database engine based on standardPython shelve module.

The program needs Python version 2.3 or 2.4, Qt library version 2.3or 3.* and PyQt compatible with Qt installed on your computer.

PyMoney is not compatible with Qt/PyQt version 4.0 or upper!

The program is distributed as an ipk-package for Sharp Zaurus PDA andas a source tarball for other platforms.

You always can download the latest release fromhttps://sourceforge.net/projects/zpymoney/.

I recommend you to use Python Zaurus Image as a Python interpreteron Sharp Zaurus PDA. Go to that site and follow instructions todownload and install it. I recommend to install big, writable imageif you need password protection for your data.

Then download crypt.tar.gz, unpack it and copy the library fil to/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload/ on your Zaurus.

Check Python: open Qkonsole and enter the command python, you willsee the Python's prompt »>. Type import qt and press Enter. Ifyou have got an error message, Python is installed incorrectly.

If you see no messages, everything is ok. Leave the Python pressingCtrl-D.

Install ipk-package downloaded from this site in a usual way (as youdo for any other package). Please, install it to internal memory. OnApplications tab of the desktop you should see a new label calledPyMoney.

Tap it and after the program started, select ?/Help menu to get morehelp on usage.

Unpack downloaded tarball to the home (or any other) directory, cdinto and start ./pymoney.py. That's it!