PyCurrency - a simple currency conversion solution for python

I needed a way to add currency conversions to some code, in the past I used a script that retrieved yahoo currency exchange data in csv format and stored the exchange rates. This time around I wanted something  simpler, and since I couldn't find anything, I wrote it myself.

I've just released an alpha version of PyCurrency. The code is embarrassingly horrible, the doctests pass and most importantly it works for me. The idea is to create a wrapper around Google's currency conversion features.

To get started install it using easy_install or pip:

easy_install pycurrency

Usage is pretty straight forward. Below is an example of how you would convert 1 US Dollar to Jamaican Dollars:

>>> from pycurrency import converter
>>> myconverter = converter.Converter(1,'USD','JMD')
>>> myconverter.result() 

u'85.2878465'

Once instantiated, a converter object can be loaded with new currencies and amounts and the result recalculated. For more information visit: http://readthedocs.org/docs/pycurrency

The source is managed using mercurial and housed at bitbucket.org: https://bitbucket.org/alteroo/pycurrency