Multiple accounts in one file

[schinkelg]

I've downloaded a MT940 file from the Rabobank. It contains two accounts for a certain period, but the library only provides one opening and closing statement. Does the library handle multiple accounts in one file?

[wolph]

It's come up before and someone was working on a fix but seems to have stopped at some point: #52

With a small example file I could start working on a fix but it won't be too soon. I'm really swamped :)

[schinkelg]

No worries, at least I got my suspicions confirmed. If I ever receive some extra spare time from the gods above I'll hack on it and open up a pull request. ;) Thanks!

[PythonicNinja]

@schinkelg This parser [1] supports multiple.

[1] - https://pypi.org/project/mt940/

[wolph]

@PythonicNinja is that project alive again? It's been dead for years as far as I know.

[PythonicNinja]

@wolph They created new release on 29th March 2020 [1] so seems kinda up to date.

I had some problem with it and I couldn't find that repo so I downloaded source code and tweaked some parts that were not optimal for my use case.

[1] https://pypi.org/project/mt940/#history

[wolph]

Ah, I see :)
That's good to see. I guess I glossed over that one when I looked at the releases.

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[wolph]

Would you still have that Rabobank file (or a redacted excerpt with two :20:/:25: account blocks)? mt940.parse_statements() was added in a later release specifically to return one statement per :20: block, and it may already do what you need — but if your file has both accounts sharing a single :20: block, that's a distinct, still-open shape (see #105) and we'd want to see the real structure before deciding how to handle it.

Full audit findings for this repo (including this issue) are in #127.

[schinkelg]

Unfortunately I don't have that file anymore. I'm not even with that particular bank anymore, so also not able to 'reproduce'. I switched banks unrelated to this bug (or missing feature) ;)