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): connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('intersango.com') connection.request("GET", "/api/ticker.php") response = connection.getresponse() if response.reason == httplib.responses[httplib.NOT_FOUND]: return response = json.loads(response.read()) # 1 = BTC:GBP # 2 = BTC:EUR # 3 = BTC:USD # 4 = BTC:PLN quote_currencies = {} try: quote_currencies["GBP"] = self._lookup_rate(response, 1) quote_currencies["EUR"] = self._lookup_rate(response, 2) quote_currencies["USD"] = self._lookup_rate(response, 3) with self.lock: self.quote_currencies = quote_currencies self.parent.emit(SIGNAL("refresh_balance()")) except KeyError: pass def _lookup_rate(self, response, quote_id): return decimal.Decimal(response[str(quote_id)]["last"]) if __name__ == "__main__": exch = Exchanger(("EUR", "USD", "GBP")) print exch.exchange(1, "EUR")