Running PyBill with the command-line

PyBill can only be run from the command-line with pybill executable file. The usage of this command is:

pybill [options] accounting-files

accounting-files is a list of files in PBD XML format. These files will be transformed in PDF by PyBill. Each PDF file is saved in the same directory as its corresponding PBD XML file. Several options control the PDF transformation:

-c or --config

option used to specify a configuration file. This file must be in PyBill configuration format. It will override any configuration file that is specified in the accounting-files thanks to a processing instruction.

-k or --config

option used to ask the automatic conversion of the accounting files into the last PBD format. The existing files are saved with a .old extension and are replaced with files containing the converted accounting documents.

Please note that files that already are in the last PBD format will also be converted.

-n or --no-entries

option to disable the generation of the accounting entries. By default, PyBill generates the accounting entries in pycompta XML format for the accounting documents it processes (in each document, a dedicated processing instruction can contain the number of the accounts impacted by the document). The entries are saved in the XML file specified by -e option.

-e or --entries-file

option to specify the name of the XML file in which the accounting entries generated by PyBill from the accounting documents it processes, will be saved. By default, this file name is entries.xml.

Some general options can also be used:

--version

option for printing PyBill version and exiting without doing anything more.

-h or --help

option for printing PyBill help message and exiting without doing anything more.

-d or --debug

option for always stopping in case of exception and for writing the full exception message.