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Prices in euros from different times can not be compared without taking inflation into account.
This also negatively impacts peoples abilities to gauge their own financial prosperity because what they conceive as a raise might not even cover they loss in purchase-power due to inflation.
This fix this issue, I present:
To fix this issue, I present:
### The Millenial Euro
#### aka Meuro (symbol µ)
Meuro's worth is equivalent to that of the euro on January 1st 2001 00:00 GMT.
(Yes, thats 2001 and not 200 because the first millenium started in the year 1 and so the third oen started in 2001. I do realize that this is stupid, but that's not my fault and all the people that celebrated the beginning of the new century at silvester 2000 should technically have waited another year.)
(Yes, thats 2001 and not 2000 because the first millenium started in the year 1 and so the third one started in 2001. I do realize that this is stupid, but that's not my fault and all the people that celebrated the beginning of the new century at silvester 2000 should technically have waited another year.)
## This repo
What you find in this repo is a small python-libary that conects to the ecb to get historic inflation-data and computes the conversion-factor between € and µ for any given date (after Jan 1st 2001).
The provided functions are:
What you find in this repo is a small python-libary that connects to the ecb to get historic inflation-data and computes the conversion-factor between € and µ for any given date (after Jan 1st 2001).
##### The provided functions are:
#### exchangeRate(date=None)
Gives you the exchange rate between euros and meuros for the given date.
#### euroToMeuro(eur, date=None, wholeCents=True)