Post: A Posting Line

class means.types.Post.Post(*, acct: Account, amnt: float = 0.0, unit: tuple[str, str] = ('', ''), asrt: str = '')

A single posting line: an account, a signed amount, a unit, and an optional assertion.

I Construction and Serialization

classmethod Post.new(text: str) → Self

Parse a post from one posting line of ledger text.

Parameters:

text – The raw posting line, e.g. costs:sh:food  $12.34 = $56.78.

Returns:

The parsed post, with the amount’s sign and unit affixes normalized.

Post.serialize(last: bool = False) → str

Render this post as an aligned ledger posting line.

Parameters:

last – Whether this is the final post of a transaction, whose amount may be elided.

Returns:

The formatted posting line.

II Classification

Post.type

The account type of this post’s account.