installing python accounting

[DJBob60]

I am trying to install the python-accounting package, but the following error message appears,
this seems a rather basic definition error, but I can't figure it out. Is it me or is the error real?

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AttributeError Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[1], line 5
2 from python_accounting.models import Base
3 from sqlalchemy import create_engine
----> 5 database = config.database
6 engine = create_engine(database["url"])
8 Base.metadata.create_all(engine)

AttributeError: module 'python_accounting.config' has no attribute 'database'
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[ekmungai]

Hi @DJBob60 ,

Hmm, could you provide the rest of the code in the file throwing the error, including the imports.

Cheers,
Ed

[DJBob60]

hi Ed, with some delay, apologies, travel got in the way. here’s the code and the resulting error, I checked and the import via pip command were successful. I am puzzled, thanks for being so responsive Robert from python_accounting import config from python_accounting.models import Base from sqlalchemy import create_engine database = config.database engine = create_engine(database["url"]) Base.metadata.create_all(engine) # run migrations to create tables

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------- AttributeError Traceback (most recent call last) Cell In[1], line 5 2 from python_accounting.models import Base 3 from sqlalchemy import create_engine ----> 5 database = config.database 6 engine = create_engine(database["url"]) 8 Base.metadata.create_all(engine) AttributeError: module 'python_accounting.config' has no attribute ‘database'

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[ekmungai]

Hey Robert,

Could you try changing the line from python_accounting import config to from python_accounting.config import config. I've just seen a pull request suggesting the change to the readme. Perhaps thats the issue.

Cheers,
Ed

[Ricyteach]

Hey Robert,

Could you try changing the line from python_accounting import config to from python_accounting.config import config. I've just seen a pull request suggesting the change to the readme. Perhaps thats the issue.

Cheers, Ed

This fixed it for me. So the configuration section of the README should say:

from python_accounting.config import config 
from python_accounting.models import Base
from sqlalchemy import create_engine

database = config.database
engine = create_engine(database["url"])

Base.metadata.create_all(engine) # run migrations to create tables

The changes are:

# this line has been updated from:
# from python_accounting import config
# ...to:
from python_accounting.config import config