Get electrum bitcoin wallet history as a dict

elec2csv.py

import subprocess
import sys


def get_history():
    """
    Get electrum history without requiring it as a module

    Returns:
        (dict) - current electrum wallet history
    """
    history = None
    try:
        history = eval(subprocess.check_output(['electrum', 'history']))
    except OSError:
        sys.stderr.write("ERROR: Install electrum with: pip install electrum")
    except:
        sys.stderr.write("Something bad happened: %s" % sys.exc_info()[1])

    return history


if __name__ == '__main__':

    history = get_history()
    if history is not None:
        for tx in history:
            print("%s;%+.8f" % (tx["date"], tx["value"]))
    else:
        print("I HAVE NOTHING FOR YOU")