stock quote program

[inkedmn]

this script grabs stock quotes from yahoo.com and prints them out.


#!/usr/bin/env python

# grabs stock quotes

def stockQuote(symbol):
import urllib2, string, sys
newsymbol = symbol.upper()
base = 'http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s='
tail = '&f=sl1d1t1c1ohgv&e=.csv'
url = base+symbol+tail
try:
quote = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
except Exception, e:
print e
sys.exit()
splitquote = quote.split(',')
if splitquote[1] != "0.00":
print "The current price of %s is %s" % ((splitquote[0])[1:-1] , splitquote[1])
else:
print "Sorry, I couldn't find that one"
symbol = raw_input("Enter a ticker symbol: ")
stockQuote(symbol)


:)

[kmj]

very qool. I was thinking of doing something similar with snow reports from various ski resort websites.

[Ludootje]

You 2 are so damn good in programming. I think it's a gift or something like that, you understand it or you don't. And I'm affraid I don't :(
Or I just don't want to spend my time on learning it :o

[kmj]

lol; it's not that hard, but it does take time. Heck, most of the work is already done for you in the libraries. You do have to want to do it, though.

[inkedmn]

Originally posted by kmj
lol; it's not that hard, but it does take time. Heck, most of the work is already done for you in the libraries. You do have to want to do it, though.

i wholeheartedly agree...

i think part of the reason i pick this stuff up fairly quickly is because it think it's a pantload of fun :)

don't be afraid to try it. we all suck in the beginning... ;)