from PyQt4.QtCore import SIGNAL import decimal import httplib import json import threading class Exchanger(threading.Thread): def __init__(self, parent): threading.Thread.__init__(self) self.daemon = True self.parent = parent self.quote_currencies = None self.lock = threading.Lock() # Do price discovery self.start() def exchange(self, btc_amount, quote_currency): with self.lock: if self.quote_currencies is None: return None quote_currencies = self.quote_currencies.copy() if quote_currency not in quote_currencies: return None return btc_amount * quote_currencies[quote_currency] def run(self): self.discovery() def discovery(self): try: connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('blockchain.info') connection.request("GET", "/ticker") except: return response = connection.getresponse() if response.reason == httplib.responses[httplib.NOT_FOUND]: return response = json.loads(response.read()) quote_currencies = {} try: for r in response: quote_currencies[r] = self._lookup_rate(response, r) with self.lock: self.quote_currencies = quote_currencies self.parent.emit(SIGNAL("refresh_balance()")) except KeyError: pass def get_currencies(self): return [] if self.quote_currencies == None else sorted(self.quote_currencies.keys()) def _lookup_rate(self, response, quote_id): return decimal.Decimal(str(response[str(quote_id)]["15m"])) if __name__ == "__main__": exch = Exchanger(("BRL", "CNY", "EUR", "GBP", "RUB", "USD")) print exch.exchange(1, "EUR")