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# stockquote.py
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import sys
import stdio
from instream import InStream

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# Return the raw HTML from the website http://finance.yahoo.com

def _readHTML(stockSymbol):
    WEBSITE = 'http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s='
    page = InStream(WEBSITE + stockSymbol)
    html = page.readAll()
    return html

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# Extract the current stock price of the stock whose symbol is 
# stockSymbol from the HTML and return it.

def priceOf(stockSymbol):
    html  = _readHTML(stockSymbol)
    trade = html.find('yfs_l84', 0)
    beg   = html.find('>', trade)
    end   = html.find('</span>', beg)
    price = html[beg+1:end]
    price = price.replace(',', '')
    return float(price)

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# Accept string stockSymbol as a command-line argument. Write to
# standard output the current stock price for stockSymbol, as reported
# by the website http://finance.yahoo.com/.

def main():
    stockSymbol = sys.argv[1]
    price = priceOf(stockSymbol)
    stdio.writef('%.2f\n', price)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

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# python stockquote.py goog
# 540.48

# python stockquote.py adbe
# 83.55