Read an OFX String instead of a OFX file

[jones-chris]

It would be helpful if this library could read an OFX string instead of only OFX files.

[leogregianin]

Can you try this:

from io import BytesIO
from ofxparse import OfxParser

ofx_string = """OFXHEADER:100
DATA:OFXSGML
VERSION:102
SECURITY:NONE
(...)
"""

f = BytesIO(ofx_string)
ofx = OfxParser.parse(f)

# Account
account = ofx.account
account.routing_number

[valinolucas407]

i tried but this TypeError occurs.. TypeError Traceback (most recent call last) in ----> 1 f = BytesIO(ofx_string) 2 ofx = OfxParser.parse(f)

TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str' ​

[leogregianin]

@valinolucas407, try to encode your string, like this:

from io import BytesIO
from ofxparse import OfxParser

ofx_string = """OFXHEADER:100
DATA:OFXSGML
VERSION:102
SECURITY:NONE
(...)
"""

ofx = OfxParser.parse(BytesIO(ofx_string.encode('utf-8')))

account = ofx.account
account.routing_number

[jseutter]

Thanks @leogregianin for explaining this. @valinolucas407, did you get your code to work?