Final code for the week

Moving on through the tasks in the Rapid GUI book, I have worked through the following example. Basic Dialog based GUI creation seems straightforward, so next week I will concentrate on Main based apps and getting some scientific functionality into the code behind the GUI.

from PyQt4.QtCore import * # import QtCore and GUI libs

from PyQt4.QtGui import *

import sys # import sys and url handlers
import urllib2

class Form(QDialog): # creat form class

def __init__(self, parent=None):
super(Form, self).__init__(parent) # instantiate class

date = self.getdata() # set variables from methods below
rates = sorted(self.rates.keys())
dateLabel = QLabel(date)

self.fromComboBox = QComboBox() # set form items
self.fromComboBox.addItems(rates)
self.fromSpinBox = QDoubleSpinBox()
self.fromSpinBox.setRange(0.01, 1000000.00)
self.fromSpinBox.setValue(1.00)
self.toComboBox = QComboBox()
self.toComboBox.addItems(rates)
self.toLabel = QLabel("1.00")

grid = QGridLayout() # set form layout
grid.addWidget(dateLabel, 0, 0)
grid.addWidget(self.fromComboBox, 1, 0)
grid.addWidget(self.fromSpinBox, 1, 1)
grid.addWidget(self.toComboBox, 2, 0)
grid.addWidget(self.toLabel, 2, 1)
self.setLayout(grid)

# set form and widget signals
self.connect(self.fromComboBox,
SIGNAL("currentIndexChanged(int)"), self.updateUI)
self.connect(self.toComboBox,
SIGNAL("currentIndexChanged(int)"), self.updateUI)
self.connect(self.fromSpinBox,
SIGNAL("valueChanged(double)"), self.updateUI)

self.setWindowTitle(“Currency”)

def updateUI(self): # set method called by signals

to = unicode(self.toComboBox.currentText()) # get currency
from_ = unicode(self.fromComboBox.currentText())
# calculate amount based on values in dictionary {rates}
amount = (self.rates[from_] / self.rates[to])*\
self.fromSpinBox.value()
self.toLabel.setText("%0.2f" % amount)

def getdata(self): # method to get the data and populate the form

self.rates = {}
try:

date = "Unknown"
fh = urllib2.urlopen("http://www.bankofcanada.ca"
"/en/markets/csv/exchange_eng.csv") # data

for line in fh:

if not line or line.startswith(("#", "Closing")):

continue # discard lines we don't want

fields = line.split(",") # split csv data

if line.startswith("Date"):
date = fields[-1] # get date

else:

try:

value = float(fields[-1]) # convert rate to float
self.rates[unicode(fields[0])] = value
# create key:value (currency:exch rate) pair in dict

except ValueError:

pass
return "Exchange rate date: " + date

except Exception, e:

return "Failed to download:\n%s" % e

# show forms
app = QApplication(sys.argv)
form = Form()
form.show()
app.exec_()

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