web client in Python Q

Jive Dadson notontheweb at noisp.com
Wed May 7 20:22:13 EDT 2008


Hey folks.  I know approximately zero about web clients.  There's a 
simple task I want to do. (I think it's probably simple.) And I figure a 
Python script ought to be just the ticket.

Various web services for daily stock ticker info.  For example,

http://finance.google.com/finance/historical?q=NYSE:APC&output=csv

and

http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=APC&f=sl1d1t1c1ohgv&e=.csv

Those will serve up data for the stock APC.  But the problem is, a 
file-selection dialog pops up.  I would like to have a program that 
would supply a file name and download the data automatically, without 
human or mouse intervention.  Is that clear?

Can someone point me in the right direction?

Thankee.



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