stock quotes

[George Sakkis]

Donlingerfelt wrote:
> I would like to download stock quotes from the web, store them, do
> calculations and sort the results.  However I am fairly new and don't have a
> clue how to parse the results of a web page download.   I can get to the
> site, but do not know how to request the certain data  need.  Does anyone
> know how to do this?  I would really appreciate it.  Thanks.

This will get you started:
http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/

George