Retrieving a stock quote using Python?

[David Robinow]

David Lees <abcdebl2nonspammy at verizon.net> wrote in message news:<fJSya.32517$Hy3.11289 at nwrddc02.gnilink.net>...
> I would like to write a utility in Python that takes a stock symbol as 
> an input and returns a current price.  Suggestions on how to do this are 
> welcome.  I was thinking of an approach that would go out to a page like 
> finance.yahoo.com, entering the stock symbol and then collecting the 
> results and parsing them for the price.  But it has been awhile since I 
> used pythton and I'm not sure I ever really knew how to do this.

http://www.hotscripts.com/Python/Scripts_and_Programs/Web_Fetching/