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How it works

The module works by parsing the input string and uses different handlers to calculate the expression.

The following handlers are supported:

There is also a generic handler (MultiHandler) which handles a request using all or a subset of handlers.

Setup

The currency service by default is enabled, however it is not running. There is also a cache to store results in a cache directory which you can enable/disable.

Cache directories

Suppose your username is username:

Log directories

Supose your username is username:

You can enable/disable the services manually but the prefered way is to use the calculate_anything.preferences.Preferences class

**The full preferences documentation can be found at Preferences Documentation

Example

import locale
from calculate_anything.preferences import Preferences

# Set your locale
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'en_US.UTF-8')

preferences = Preferences()
# Set the language
preferences.language.set('en_US')
# Set currencies to get by default when no target currency is specified
preferences.currency.set_default_currencies(['USD', 'EUR', 'CAD', 'BTC'])

# Enable cache and run every day (value specified in seconds). If set to 0 it is disabled
preferences.currency.enable_cache(60 * 60 * 24)

# Set default cities to show when no target city is specified when using time
preferences.time.set_default_cities('London GB,Athens GR,Tokyo JP')

# Commit preferences. If you don't commit, no change is made
preferences.commit()

Making queries

You can make queries by either using the MultiHandler or a specific handler

Here are some examples

# Import the handlers

from calculate_anything.query import MultiHandler


# Create a queries
queries = [
    '= 10 EUR to CAD',
    '= 10 + sqrt(2) + 5i',
    'time at Vancouver Canada',
    '= 10 meters to inches',
    'bin 1011011 mod 1010 and 10',
    'hex #ff12dd',
    #....
]

# Get the results
for query in queries:
    result = MultiHandler().handle(query)
    # Result is of QueryResult type with following attributes
    result.icon # relative path of icon
    result.name # result text (formatted)
    result.description # result description
    result.clipboard # value to copy to clipboard if any
    result.value # result value (not formatted)
    result.error # If error or None
    result.order # Order of result


# If you want to handle the query using one or more
# particular handlers you can use the following


# Import one or more handlers
from calculate_anything.query.handlers import (
    TimeQueryHandler, UnitsQueryHandler,
    PercentagesQueryHandler, CalculatorQueryHandler,
    Base10QueryHandler, Base16QueryHandler, Base2QueryHandler,
    Base8QueryHandler
)

handlers = [UnitsQueryHandler, TimeQueryHandler]

for query in queries:
    result = MultiHandler().handle(query, *handlers)
    # Do something with the result

The QueryResult object

The QueryResult object is returned when using the MultiHandler class. However you can have access to the underlying Calculation by either using MultiHandler’s handle_raw method, or by using directly a QueryHandler.

Some subclasses of the Calculation object can have more properties. The Calculation objects holds more information, such as

The Calculation API is not yet stable but the underlying properties are Example to get the Calculation object.

query = '10 + sqrt(2)'
calculations = CalculatorQueryHandler().handle(query)

for calculation in calculations:
    calculation.value # Value of calculation
    calculation.value_type # Value_type of calculation (int)
    calculation.get_description()
    calculation.format()
    result = calculation.to_query_result() # Returns the relevant QueryResult

# You can also get the Calculations by using the MultiHandler like this
calculations = MultiHandler().handle_raw(query)
for calculation in calculations:
    # ....
    result = calculation.to_query_result()

Extending QueryHandlers

You can write your own handler by subclassing the QyeryHandler class

from calculate_anything.query.handlers.base import QueryHandler
from calculate_anything.calculation import Calculation
from calculate_anything.query.handlers import CalculatorQueryHandler

class MyHandler(QyeryHandler):
    # The keyword can be anything (i.e "=", "+", ...)
    def __init__(self, keyword='customKeyword'):
        super().__init__(keyword)

    # You can implement this class if you want more granular control
    # of what queries your handler can handle. By default it is anything that
    # starts with your handler's keyword
    def can_handle(self, query):
        return super().can_handle(query)

    # Here you implement the logic of handling. You can use other handlers
    # too to help you parse your query. For example you can split your query
    # and calculate each part with the CalculatorQueryHandler and then concatenate
    # everythin to a custom Caclulation
    def handle_raw(self, query):
        # Use other query handler to calculate something
        calculation = CalculatorQueryHandler(query)
        
        # Check if errors exist
        if calculatione.error:
            return [calculation]
        
        value = calculation.value
        calculation1 = Calculation(value=value + 1, order=0)
        calculation2 = Calculation(value=value + 1.2, order=1)
        return [calculation1, calculation2]


    # You can use this decorator to automatically reject queries 
    # That do not start with your keyword. This will call the 
    # can_handle() method above, or if not implemented it will call the super method
    @QyeryHandler.Decorators.can_handle
    def handle(self, query):
        return self.handle_raw(query)

Currency Providers

By default there are 3 internal CurrencyProviders. Which are of type FreeCurrencyProvider (subclass of CurrencyProvider). This means they don’t need any authorization or API KEY

There is 1 ApiKeyCurrencyProvider subclass of CurrencyProvider which requires an API Key and you can enable it through the preferences (see Preferences Documentation)

The main provider that combines all of these together to get all results, is the CombinedCurrencyProvider and handles the requesting of all the aforementioned providers so you don’t have to request each and every one of them

You can also create your custom CurrencyProvider by subclassing either the FreeCurrencyProvider or the ApiKeyCurrencyProvider depending on if you require an api key or not.

NOTE: The currency conversion system works with base currency the EURO. So you have to convert any rate to EURO base

Example

from datetime import datetime
import json
from json.decoder import JSONDecodeError
from urllib.request import urlopen
from urllib.error import HTTPError
# Get some supah nice logging
from calculate_anything import logging
from calculate_anything.currency.providers import ApiKeyCurrencyProvider
from calculate_anything.exceptions import CurrencyProviderException


logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)


class CustomCurrencyProvider(ApiKeyCurrencyProvider):
    BASE_URL = 'http://your-base-url'
    API_URL = '/the-path-to/api/some-version/whatever'

    def __init__(self, api_key=''):
        super().__init__(api_key)

    def request_currencies(self, *currencies, force=False):
        super().request_currencies(*currencies, force=force)
        # Some query params for the request
        params = {'access_key': self._api_key, 'base': 'EUR'}
        try:
            # This is a super method, you can redefine it.
            request = self.get_request(params)
            logger.info('Making request to: {}'.format(request.full_url))
            with urlopen(request) as response:
                data = response.read().decode()
                response_code = response.getcode()
        except HTTPError as e:
            response_code = e.code
        except Exception as e:
            msg = 'Could not connect: {}'.format(e)
            logger.exception(e)
            self.had_error = True
            raise CurrencyProviderException(msg)

        if not str(response_code).startswith('2'):
            self.had_error = True
            msg = 'Response code not 2xx: {}'.format(response_code)
            logger.error(msg)
            raise CurrencyProviderException(msg)

        try:
            data = json.loads(data)
        except JSONDecodeError as e:
            self.had_error = True
            logger.exception('Could not decode json data: {}'.format(e))
            raise CurrencyProviderException('Could not decode json data')

        # Here you can handle your result
        # You need to return a dictionary as follows and EUR must be present in the currencies
        .... Code to process results
        # Get timestamp from provider or use datetime.now
        timestamp = datetime.now().timestamp()
        return {
            'EUR': {'rate': 1.0, 'timestamp_refresh': timestamp},
            'USD': {'rate': 0.900001, 'timestamp_refresh': timestamp},
            'CAD': {'rate': 0.75757, 'timestamp_refresh': timestamp},
            'AUD': {'rate': 0.667766, 'timestamp_refresh': timestamp},
        }

Adding your provider

Not documented yet (It should be added through the CombinedCurrencyProvider)

Logging

The logging module used by calculate_anything is at calculate_anything.logging and is a wrapper for Python’s loggin module. By default 2 handlers are used

You can disable these handlers or set your own handlers/formatters Example

from calculate_anything import logging

# Disable both or just one handler
logging.disable_file_handler()
logging.disable_stdout_handler()

# Or even set a custom handler
handler = logging.CustomHandler(debug=print, info=print, warning=print, critical=print, critical=print)
# You can even use custom format and coloring, just remeber to use double braces for Python's logging format and single braces for coloring
handler.setFormatter(logging.ColorFormatter(
    fmt='[{BLUE}.:{RESET}]: ',
    use_color=True
))
logging.set_stdout_handler(handler)

Preferences Documentation

This is the preferences documentation with all possible preferences.

Suppose you already have initiated the preferences object with

from calculate_anything import Preferences
pref = Preferences()
Preference Description
pref.language.lang the current language as a str
pref.language.set(lang) sets the language to be comitted. lang must be a str (i.e ‘en_US’)
pref.time.default_cities returns the current default cities as a list of dicts
pref.time.set_default_cities(cities) sets the default cities. cities must be either comma seperated str or an iterable of str
pref.currency.default_currencies returns the current default currencies as a list of str
pref.currency.set_default_currencies(currencies) sets the default currencies to be commited. must be a str of comma separated currencies or an iterable of str
pref.currency.cache_update_frequency returns the current cache update frequency as an int representing seconds
pref.currency.set_cache_update_frequency(freq) sets the cache update frequency to be commited. must be int representing seconds
pref.currency.enable_cache(freq) Alias of pref.currency.set_cache_update_frequency
pref.currency.disable_cache() Disables cache (i.e frequency = 0)
pref.currency.providers Returns a list of str representing the current currency providers used
pref.currency.add_provider(provider, api_key='') Sets the currency provider to be used. If the first parameter is an instance of CurrencyProvider, api_key is ignored, otherwise uses provider as a str to find a matching provider by name (api_key is optional and '' by default)
pref.currency.remove_provider(provider) Removes provider. provider can be either a str or a CurrencyProvider instance
pref.units.conversion_mode Gets the current units conversion mode as an int from UnitsService.ConversionMode enum
pref.units.set_conversion_mode(mode) Sets the conversion mode to be commited. Can be either a str (i.e ‘normal’/’crazy’ or an int from UnitsService.ConversionMode enum)