iamsudip sharevalue v2 20130712-151409

Code

 1 #!/usr/bin/env python
 2 
 3 import urllib2
 4 import sys
 5 
 6 def main(nasdaq):
 7 
 8     """
 9     Here all work is being done.
10 
11     :arg nasdaq: NASDAQ symbol
12     """
13 
14     #Making the link in 'link' string to fetch share value
15     link = 'http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s='+nasdaq+'&f=l1'
16     print 'Fetching recent share value of '+nasdaq
17 
18     #Share value saved into an instance share_value
19     share_value = urllib2.urlopen(link)
20 
21     #Fetching data to find company name
22     html_data=urllib2.urlopen('http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/'+nasdaq)
23     name=html_data.read()
24 
25     #Finding the Company name & Displaying
26     start=name.find('<title>')+7
27     end=name.find('</title>')-25
28     while start < end:
29         print name[start],
30         start+=1
31     html_data.close()
32 
33     #Printing share_value which was saved in share_value previously
34     print '\n'+'Current share price of company '+nasdaq+': '+share_value.read()
35     share_value.close()
36 
37 if __name__ == '__main__':
38 
39     #Counting the NASDAQ Symbol (Arguments)
40     count = len(sys.argv) - 1
41 
42     #Checking if atleast one symbol available or not
43     if count >= 1:
44 
45         #NASDAQ symbol available passing it to main() function
46         i=0
47         while i < count:
48             i+=1
49             main(sys.argv[i])
50 
51     else:
52         #If nothing given as argument it will print the syntax to use this code"
53         print 'Atleast 1 Argument needed'+'\n'+'Syntax: ./sharevalue.py [NASDAQ Symbol] [NASDAQ Symbol]'
54     sys.exit(0)

Link to code

sharevalue.py

How to execute code

Run the above script like:

$ ./sharevalue.py [NASDAQ value] [NASDAQ symbol] [NASDAQ symbol] [NASDAQ symbol]

or:

$ python sharevalue.py [NASDAQ value] [NASDAQ symbol] [NASDAQ symbol] [NASDAQ symbol]

Example output

Here some example output is given below:

$ ./sharevalue.py ORCL
Fetching recent share value of ORCL
O R C L   s t o c k   q u o t e   -   O r a c l e   C o r p o r a t i o n
Current share price of company ORCL: 31.86

$ ./sharevalue.py ORCL GOOG RHT
Fetching recent share value of ORCL
O R C L   s t o c k   q u o t e   -   O r a c l e   C o r p o r a t i o n
Current share price of company ORCL: 31.86

Fetching recent share value of GOOG
G O O G   s t o c k   q u o t e   -   G o o g l e   I n c .
Current share price of company GOOG: 920.24

Fetching recent share value of RHT
R H T   s t o c k   q u o t e   -   R e d   H a t ,   I n c .
Current share price of company RHT: 50.57

$./sharevalue.py
Atleast 1 Argument needed
Syntax: ./sharevalue.py [NASDAQ Symbol] [NASDAQ Symbol]