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Python Tkinter Investment Account Portfolio Management Desktop Application

About

A simple financial portfolio GUI for managing a Robinhood and Fidelity account using Python 3 Tkinter. Uses Sqlite3 and asynchronous programming to display and set account performances, watch lists, and balances. Will run on either Windows, Linux, or Mac OS with Python 3 and associated modules installed via PIP3

To Run

• install Python 3 and PIP3 modules listed below
• open terminal or command prompt and enter python3 index.py

PIP3 Module Installation Requirments

• async_tkinter_loop
• yahoo_finance_async
  • App will break if module loses support from Yahoo Finance
• pandas

Other resources

PyInstaller

If using multiple operating systems, skip this section

1. Convert app title icon to a base64 byte array or else the title icon will return an error and not display
2. pyinstaller -w --add-data "Database\investment_accounts.db;.\Database" --onefile index.py

Placing a URL image from a request in a frame

    raw_data = urllib.request.urlopen(req).read()
    im = Image.open(io.BytesIO(raw_data)).resize((500,500))
    image = ImageTk.PhotoImage(im, size="200x200")
    label1 = Label(mainframe, image=image)
    label1.grid(column=1, row=1, sticky=(W,E,S,N))