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.. date: 2013/07/15 13:40:53
.. title: tenstormavi Sharevalue 20130715-134052
.. slug: tenstormavi-sharevalue-20130715-134052

Sharevalue
==========
Our assignment is to print the latest share value of a company whose NASDAQ symbol would be given as command line argument.

Code
====
::
        #!/usr/bin/env python

        import urllib2 #<---------------------------------- the module is imported for opening url

        import sys     #<-----------------------------------sys module is imported for command line arguments

        def share(symbol): #<-------------The function is defined for opening and reading the url, and for printing sharevalue

        try:           #---------------Used for handle exception and error may be due to problems like url not opening

        link = urllib2.urlopen('http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s='+symbol+'&f=l1') #<------opens the url

        r = float(link.read())  #<----------------------------------Reads the url

        if r == 0.00: #<---------------------if any wrong symbol is entered then it print the share

            print "The Nasdaq code entered is wrong"

        else:

            print "The current sharevalue for the given NASDAQ symbol is %f" % (r)

        except:

        print "failed to open the finance.yahoo.com url"

        if __name__ == '__main__':

        if len(sys.argv) !=2:

                print "Enter a valid NASDAQ symbol"

                sys.exit(1)

        else:

                share(sys.argv[1])

                sys.exit(1)

Link
====

Code is here: `sharevalue.py`_

.. _sharevalue.py: https://github.com/tenstormavi/dgplug_home_tasks/blob/master/sharevalue/sharevalue.py

Run
===
How to run the above command::

        $python sharevalue.py