Right now, Ledger-CLI has a rather incomplete Python interface, based on

   [Boost.Python](http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_55_0/libs/python/doc/).

   However, the right approach is probably to use

   [SWIG](http://www.swig.org/) or some other similar mechanism to build a

   proper Python API.  Perhaps Ledger-CLI could stick with Boost.Python, but

   what's there clearly needs an overhaul.  The upside of using SWIG will be

   that we can get APIs for other languages too. 

   While this project is of primary interest to this project, it will require

   careful coordination with Ledger-CLI as an upstream, and we'll help mentor

   the student in that.

    This would provide an alternate, single-language implementation

    useful for testing, validation and future-proofing.