Django Currency Conversion

Question

Is there any facility in Django for doing currency conversions? Obviously, rates change day by day but I'm somewhat hopeful that the locale module has some sort of web-service based converter.

There's a snippet here that handles the formatting: http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/552/ But I need to localize the values first.

Answer 1

Probably more elegant ways to do this, but it works.

currency_in = 'USD'
currency_out = 'NOK'
import urllib2
req = urllib2.urlopen('http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?e=.csv&f=sl1d1t1&s='+currency_in+currency_out+'=X')
result = req.read()
# result = "USDNOK=X",5.9423,"5/3/2010","12:39pm"

Then you can split() the result for the modifier.

Answer 2

# Install google-currency package

# pip install google-currency

>>> from google_currency import convert  

>>> convert('usd', 'bdt', 1) 

Output:

{"from": "USD", "to": "BDT", "amount": "85.30", "converted": true}