iowabeakster myshell 20130718-191254

basic functions of script

• import necessary modules
• take 4 prompt inputs and give the requested outputs

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note: this script was meant to be ran in a virutalenv with needed modules installed, as in session work

script code

from cmd2 import Cmd
import os
import pwd
import requests

__version__ = '0.1'

# function to provide the current username
def get_username():
    return pwd.getpwuid( os.getuid() )[ 0 ]


class Application(Cmd):
    """
    The main Application class

    """
    def __init__(self):
        Cmd.__init__(self)

# provided hello input function
    def do_hello(self, line):
        print "Hello:", line

# sayit function prints indicated text, conveying that python does "Rock!"
    def do_sayit(self, line):
        print "Python Rocks!", line

# home task assignment to repond to the input "greet" with "Hi, <username>"
    def do_greet(self, line):
        user = get_username()
        print "Hi,", user

# home task to provide stock quote using the requests lib
    def do_stock(self, line):
        ticker = line
        r = requests.get(
        'http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=%s&f=l1' % ticker
        )
        print r.text




if __name__ == '__main__':
    app = Application()
    app.cmdloop()