/usr/bin/units_cur is in units 2.11-1.
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#
# Version 2
# 9 July 2013
#
# Modified to use xml format output from timegenie instead of text file
#
# Version 3
# 7 March 2014
#
# Added checks for unicode currency names
#
import sys
import urllib
import os
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
import codecs
from datetime import datetime
from unidecode import unidecode
outfile='/usr/share/units/currency.units'
outstr = ''
if len(sys.argv)==2:
outfile = sys.argv[1]
elif len(sys.argv)>2:
sys.stderr.write('Usage: {0} [filename]\n\n'.format(sys.argv[0]))
sys.stderr.write('Update currency information for \'units\' into the specified\n')
sys.stderr.write('filename or the default location, \'{0}\'.\n'.format(outfile))
sys.exit(1)
try:
currencies = ET.parse(urllib.urlopen('http://rss.timegenie.com/forex.xml')).findall('data')
except IOError, exc:
sys.stderr.write('Error connecting to currency server. {0}\n'.format(exc))
sys.exit(1)
# print codes here
codes = [x.find('code').text for x in currencies]
names = [x.find('description').text for x in currencies]
values = [x.find('rate').text for x in currencies]
names = [x.lower().replace(' ','') for x in names]
foundunicode=False
for i in xrange(len(names)):
if names[i] == 'anguilla(ecd)':
names[i] = 'eastcaribbeandollar'
ascii = unidecode(names[i])
if names[i] != ascii:
if not foundunicode:
foundunicode = True
outstr += '# Unicode Currency Names\n\n!utf8\n'
outstr += names[i] + ' ' *(23-len(names[i])) + ascii + '\n'
names[i] = ascii
if foundunicode:
outstr += '!endutf8\n\n'
outstr += '# ISO Currency Codes\n\n'
outstr += '\n'.join([x + ' '*20 + y for x,y in zip(codes,names)])
usd = codes.index('USD')
euro = codes.index('EUR')
usdval = values[usd]
values = ['1|' + x +' euro' for x in values]
values[euro] = usdval + ' US$'
del names[usd]
del values[usd]
# print rates here
now = datetime.now()
outstr += '\n\n# Currency exchange rates from Time Genie (www.timegenie.com)\n'
outstr += '\n!message Currency exchange rates from www.timegenie.com on '+now.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')+'\n\n'
maxlen = max(map(len,names)) + 2
outstr += '\n'.join([x.ljust(maxlen) + y for x,y in zip(names, values)])
# precious metals prices
# Another source for this data might be
# http://www.xmlcharts.com/cache/precious-metals.xml
outstr += '\n\n# Precious metals prices from http://services.packetizer.com/spotprices/\n\n'
try:
spotprices = ET.parse(urllib.urlopen('http://services.packetizer.com/spotprices/?f=xml'))
except IOError, exc:
sys.stderr.write('Error connecting to spotprices server. {0}\n'.format(exc))
sys.exit(1)
metals = ['gold','platinum','silver']
for metal in metals:
outstr += '{0} {1} US$/troyounce\n'.format((metal+'price').ljust(15), spotprices.find(metal).text)
try:
if outfile == '-':
info = codecs.lookup('utf8')
outfile = codecs.StreamReaderWriter(sys.stdout, info.streamreader, info.streamwriter)
else:
outfile = codecs.open(outfile,'w','utf8')
except IOError, exc:
sys.stderr.write('Unable to write to output file. {0}\n'.format(exc))
sys.exit(1)
outfile.write(outstr.replace('\n',os.linesep))
# In python3, open(outfile,mode='w',encoding='utf8') should work
# and then the explicit newline handling won't be needed
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