Retrieving a stock quote using Python?

[Randall Smith]

David Lees wrote:
> I would like to write a utility in Python that takes a stock symbol as 
> an input and returns a current price.  Suggestions on how to do this are 
> welcome.  I was thinking of an approach that would go out to a page like 
> finance.yahoo.com, entering the stock symbol and then collecting the 
> results and parsing them for the price.  But it has been awhile since I 
> used pythton and I'm not sure I ever really knew how to do this.
> 
> TIA
> 
> David Lees
> 
Use soap web services.  SOAPpy, ZSI, etc.  One of them has an example 
program that downloads stock quotes.

Randall