Hi
I have used a number of third party Python scripts in the past but since upgrading to MD2017 most of these no longer work due to changes in the Moneydance api (already described in this forum). I have therefore tried to upgrade some of these to the new api but my Python knowledge is a bit basic!
In order to try and understand what is happening, I have written a very simple short script and it fails and I don't understand why - perhaps someone could enlighten me?

The script is:

import string

from com.infinitekind.moneydance.model import *
root = moneydance.getCurrentAccountBook()

testString = 'lower case'
print testString, ' upshifted becomes ', string.upper(testString)
accts = []
for acct in AccountUtil.getAccountIterator(root):
    sacct_type = acct.getAccountType()
    print '### Processing account ', acct.getFullAccountName(), ' type ', sacct_type, ' number ', acct.getAccountNum()
    if string.upper(sacct_type)=='EXPENSE':
       print '### Expense account'
       continue
    
print '########## END ################'

and when it runs it gives the following error:

lower case upshifted becomes LOWER CASE
### Processing account My Finances type ROOT number 0
Error running script: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "d:\Users\Steve\Documents\Moneydance\Development Area\Python Scripts\test2.py", line 12, in <module>
    if string.upper(sacct_type)=='EXPENSE':
  File "C:\Program Files\Moneydance\jars\mdpython.jar\Lib\string$py.class", line 235, in upper
AttributeError: 'com.infinitekind.moneydance.model.Account$AccountT' object has no attribute 'upper'

As you can see, the first use of string.upper worked but the second one failed - why??

My ultimate aim is to select only EXPENSE account types but I could get the condition test to work - hence this short test script.
These seems to be very little in the way of examples or documentation for the new api in python.