Currency Converter is a simple application for converting currencies. It is written is Python and can be run both as a console application and a graphical application. The main graphical user interface is written in Gtk+ 3 making use of the new PyGObject bindings. Additionally there exists a graphical userinterface written in PyQt4 making use of the new PySide bindings.
The application has support for using currency exchangerates from Yahoo! , Google and the exchangerate-api.com webservices.
Currency Converter is developed on Linux and is primarily targeting the GNOME desktop environment, but should run equaly well on platforms with the necessary dependencies available.
No installation procedure is available at the moment. A standard autotools
./configure ; make ; sudo make install is planned though. The only way of
running the application at the moment, is to run it from source, either by
downloading a tarball or cloning the gitrepo:
git clone https://github.com/ebethron/cconverter
Example usage:
$ cconverter.py --help Usage: cconverter.py [OPTIONS] ORIGINAL TARGET VALUE Options: -h, --help show this help message and exit -v, --verbose Print more information to console. -l, --list Print a list of supported currecies to console and exit. -g, --gtk Launch the Gtk user interface. -q, --qt Launch the Qt4 user interface. $ cconverter.py USD NOK 100 533.82 $ cconverter.py --gtk $ cconverter.py --qt
Currency Converter is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3 or later.