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In this tutorial, we are going to build an exciting python project through which you
can convert currencies. For a user interface, we are going to use the tkinter library
Currency Converter in Python
Prerequisites
The currency converter project in python requires you to have basic knowledge of
python programming and the pygame library.

 tkinter – For User Interface (UI)

 requests – to get url

To install the tkinter and requests library, type the following code in your terminal:
pip install tkinter
pip install requests

Download Project Code

Before proceeding ahead, please download source code of project: Currency
Converter Project Code

Steps to Build the Python Project on

Currency Converter
1. Real-time Exchange rates
2. Import required Libraries
3. CurrencyConverter Class
4. UI for CurrencyConverter
5. Main Function

1. Real-time Exchange rates

To get real-time exchange rates, we will use: https://api.exchangerate-
api.com/v4/latest/USD

Here, we can see the data in JSON format, with the following details:

Base – USD: It means we have our base currency USD. which means to convert
any currency we have to first convert it to USD then from USD, we will convert it
in whichever currency we want.

Date and time: It shows the last updated date and time.
Rates: It is the exchange rate of currencies with base currency USD.

2. Import the libraries:

For this project based on Python, we are using the tkinter and requests library. So
we need to import the library.

import requests
from tkinter import *
import tkinter as tk
from tkinter import ttk

3. Create the CurrencyConverter class:

Now we will create the CurrencyConverter class which will get the real-time
exchange rate and convert the currency and return the converted amount.

3.1. Let’s create the constructor of class.

class RealTimeCurrencyConverter():
def __init__(self,url):
self.data= requests.get(url).json()
self.currencies = self.data['rates']

requests.get(url) load the page in our python program and then .json() will convert
the page into the json file. We store it in a data variable.

3.2. Convert() method:

def convert(self, from_currency, to_currency, amount):

initial_amount = amount
#first convert it into USD if it is not in USD.
# because our base currency is USD
if from_currency != 'USD' :
amount = amount / self.currencies[from_currency]
# limiting the precision to 4 decimal places
amount = round(amount * self.currencies[to_currency], 4)
return amount

This method takes following arguments:

From_currency: currency from which you want to convert.

to _currency: currency in which you want to convert.
Amount: how much amount you want to convert.
And returns the converted amount.

Example:

url = 'https://api.exchangerate-api.com/v4/latest/USD'
converter = RealTimeCurrencyConverter(url)
print(converter.convert('INR','USD',100))

OUTPUT: 1.33

100 Indian rupees = 1.33 US dollars

4. Now let’s create a UI for the currency converter

To Create UI we will create a class CurrencyConverterUI

def __init__(self, converter):

tk.Tk.__init__(self)
self.title = 'Currency Converter'
self.currency_converter = converter

Converter: Currency Converter object which we will use to convert currencies.

Above code will create a Frame.

Let’s Create the Converter

self.geometry("500x200")
#Label
self.intro_label = Label(self, text = 'Welcome to Real Time Currency Convertor',
fg = 'blue', relief = tk.RAISED, borderwidth = 3)
self.intro_label.config(font = ('Courier',15,'bold'))
self.date_label = Label(self, text = f"1 Indian Rupee equals =
{self.currency_converter.convert('INR','USD',1)} USD \n Date :
{self.currency_converter.data['date']}", relief = tk.GROOVE, borderwidth = 5)
self.intro_label.place(x = 10 , y = 5)
self.date_label.place(x = 170, y= 50)

NOTE: This Code part of __init__ method.

First, we set up the frame and add some info in it. After the execution of this part
of code, our frame looks like something.
Now let’s create the entry box for the amount and options of currency in the frame.
So That users can enter the amount and choose among currencies.

# Entry box
valid = (self.register(self.restrictNumberOnly), '%d', '%P')
# restricNumberOnly function will restrict thes user to enter invavalid number in
Amount field. We will define it later in code
self.amount_field = Entry(self,bd = 3, relief = tk.RIDGE, justify =
tk.CENTER,validate='key', validatecommand=valid)
self.converted_amount_field_label = Label(self, text = '', fg = 'black', bg = 'white',
relief = tk.RIDGE, justify = tk.CENTER, width = 17, borderwidth = 3)
# dropdown
self.from_currency_variable = StringVar(self)
self.from_currency_variable.set("INR") # default value
self.to_currency_variable = StringVar(self)
self.to_currency_variable.set("USD") # default value
font = ("Courier", 12, "bold")
self.option_add('*TCombobox*Listbox.font', font)
self.from_currency_dropdown = ttk.Combobox(self,
textvariable=self.from_currency_variable,values=list(self.currency_converter.curre
ncies.keys()), font = font, state = 'readonly', width = 12, justify = tk.CENTER)
self.to_currency_dropdown = ttk.Combobox(self,
textvariable=self.to_currency_variable,values=list(self.currency_converter.currenci
es.keys()), font = font, state = 'readonly', width = 12, justify = tk.CENTER)
# placing
self.from_currency_dropdown.place(x = 30, y= 120)
self.amount_field.place(x = 36, y = 150)
self.to_currency_dropdown.place(x = 340, y= 120)
#self.converted_amount_field.place(x = 346, y = 150)
self.converted_amount_field_label.place(x = 346, y = 150)

NOTE: This code is part of __init__

After the successful Execution of code till now. We will get below screen:

Now Let’s add the CONVERT button which will call the perform function.

# Convert button
self.convert_button = Button(self, text = "Convert", fg = "black", command =
self.perform)
self.convert_button.config(font=('Courier', 10, 'bold'))
self.convert_button.place(x = 225, y = 135)

Command = self.perform – It means on click it will call perform().

perform() method:
The perform method will take the user input and convert the amount into the
desired currency and display it on the converted_amount entry box.

def perform(self,):
amount = float(self.amount_field.get())
from_curr = self.from_currency_variable.get()
to_curr = self.to_currency_variable.get()
converted_amount= self.currency_converter.convert(from_curr,to_curr,amount)
converted_amount = round(converted_amount, 2)
self.converted_amount_field_label.config(text = str(converted_amount))

NOTE: this function is a part of App class.

RestrictNumberOnly() method:

Now let’s create a restriction in our entry box. So that user can enter only a
number in Amount Field. We have discussed earlier that this will be done by our
RrestricNumberOnly method.

def restrictNumberOnly(self, action, string):

regex = re.compile(r"[0-9,]*?(\.)?[0-9,]*$")
result = regex.match(string)
return (string == "" or (string.count('.') <= 1 and result is not None))

NOTE: This function is a part of App class.

5. Let’s create the main function.

First, we will create the Converter. Second, Create the UI for Converter

if __name__ == '__main__':
url = 'https://api.exchangerate-api.com/v4/latest/USD'
converter = RealTimeCurrencyConverter(url)
App(converter)
mainloop()
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1. Mark

September 16, 2020 at 5:41 pm

I followed all the steps up until the last bit where I got stuck and my code isn’t working. help?
error says RealTimeCurrencyConverter doesn’t exist
 Reply

o DataFlair Team

August 3, 2021 at 8:50 pm

The code in the article has been updated, alternatively you can download the code
from the download section

Reply

2. jonh smith

October 14, 2020 at 6:46 am

can I use any other URL instead of https://api.exchangerate-api.com/v4/latest/USD

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3. Riley

October 28, 2020 at 2:55 am

Try converter = CurrencyConverter(url) instead of RealTimeCurrencyConverter(url),

CurrencyConverterUI(converter) instead of App(converter) and
class CurrencyConverterUI(tk.Tk): instead of class CurrencyConverterUI( ):
It would be working.

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o DataFlair Team

August 3, 2021 at 9:01 pm

Thanks for helping the community. Keep Learning

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4. PussySlayer69

November 23, 2020 at 1:35 pm

Thanks man…saved me from a goddamn headache

Reply

5. basil

January 15, 2021 at 11:48 pm

Can someone plz send me the whole code that i can use for my python class?
 Reply

6. Harsh

February 19, 2021 at 8:14 am

In the function restrictedNumbersOnly, the name ‘re’ is not defined, help me fix this issue.

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o DataFlair Team

April 23, 2021 at 7:27 pm

The function name is ‘restrictNumberOnly’, and you are trying

‘restrictNumbersOnly’, change the name and it would work fine.

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o DataFlair Team

April 23, 2021 at 7:27 pm

The function name is ‘restrictNumberOnly’, and you are trying

‘restrictNumbersOnly’, change the name and it would work fine.

Reply

7. Yash Gaikwad

February 28, 2021 at 12:57 pm

url = ‘https://api.exchangerate-api.com/v4/latest/USD’
converter = CurrencyConverter(url)
print(converter.convert(‘INR’,’USD’,100)) to this code I am getting an error like this, please
help

AttributeError Traceback (most recent call last)

in
1 url = ‘https://api.exchangerate-api.com/v4/latest/USD’
2 converter = CurrencyConverter(url)
—-> 3 print(converter.convert(‘INR’,’USD’,100))

AttributeError: ‘CurrencyConverter’ object has no attribute ‘convert’

please help

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o DataFlair Team

August 3, 2021 at 9:46 pm

 The required changes have been done in the code, now you won’t get the mentioned
issue. Alternatively, you can download fully tested code from the download section

Reply

8. Brandy Kicks

March 2, 2021 at 12:22 am

I’m making my own and tells me that ‘self’ is not defined what should I define it as?

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o DataFlair Team

August 3, 2021 at 9:47 pm

Self represents instance of the class. It seems you have some syntactical error in your
code, We would recommend you to check your code with the code provided in the
downloads section.

Reply

9. ashar shaikh

March 5, 2021 at 5:39 pm

to add country name with currency what should i do?

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o DataFlair Team

August 3, 2021 at 9:47 pm

You will have to change this line “amount = round(amount *

self.currencies[to_currency], 4) ” where the amount is calculated, after that change
the value of ‘currencies’ variable and then you can change the name of the country.

Reply

10. Lavneet Singh Hora

March 17, 2021 at 8:53 pm

Can someone pls help…it is showing No module named ‘requests’

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o Abhishek Farande

June 13, 2021 at 12:54 pm

 Install request module if you are running pycharm

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o DataFlair Team

August 3, 2021 at 9:48 pm

You need to install requests module. Command:

pip install requests

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11. Anon

July 3, 2021 at 2:57 pm

At least learn the basics before copy pasting and running this.

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12. Wally

October 8, 2021 at 2:46 pm

I’m a beginner. Can you tell me where you got the App class?

Reply

13. sefi sofa

October 17, 2021 at 12:22 pm

Running the code above but getting

“AttributeError: ‘RealTimeCurrencyConverter’ object has no attribute ‘convert'”

Reply

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