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.. date: 2013/07/12 11:03:33
.. title: anurag619 sharevalue 20130712-110332
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sharevalue
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here i am python script which will show us the latest nasdaq value. we will be using urllib2 module to fetch the url.

`sharevalue.py`_ code link.

.. _sharevalue.py: https://github.com/anurag619/mywork/blob/master/sharevalue/sharevalue.py
 

::

        import urllib2    #imports module urllib2.
        import sys      #imports module sys.

        def nasdaq(value):      #creating a function nasdaq.
        
                find = urllib2.urlopen('http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=%s&f=l1'%value)        #urlopen function of urllib2 fetches the url along with the argument.
                print "NASDAQ value of %s is %s " %(value.upper(), find.read())  #prints the nasdaq value.
                find.close()    

        def main():     #function main.
                
                if len (sys.argv)!= 2:  #checking the length of arguments(condition). 
                 print "enter the script and the NASDAQ sysmbol, like GOOG,FB,YHOO etc" #print the condition statement.
                else:
                 nasdaq(sys.argv[1])    #nasdaq function called.
                sys.exit(0)


        if __name__ == '__main__':      #standard condition to call the main function.
                main() 
        


*to run the code*

$python sharevalue.py FB