# *** License Information ***
# This code is released under the BSD License.
# This information must be retained any any releases or changes made to this code.
# If you use or make changes to this code, please email andrew@digicool.com
# I'd like to know who is using this and what kind of changes might be considered
# for incorporation to a future package I'm currently working on.
#
# *** Changes ***
# 20001218:  the use of httplib was removed in favor of urllib at the recomendation of David Mika.
#  This provides proxy support by setting the environmental variable http_proxy.  See urllib
# documentation on www.python.org.  Thanks.
#
import urllib, string, re
version = "0.2"
author = "Andrew Sawyers, Dec. 2000"

def getQuote(self,sname):
  f = urllib.urlopen("http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=%s&f=sl1d1t1c1ohgv"%sname)
  data = f.read()
  data = re.sub('"', '', data)
  array = string.split(data, ",")
  symbol = array[0]
  last = array[1]
  date = array[2]
  time = array[3]
  change = array[4]
  qopen = array[5]
  high = array[6]
  low = array[7]
  volume = array[8] 
  return {'symbol':symbol,
          'last':last,
          'date':date,
          'time':time,
          'change':change,
          'qopen':qopen,
          'high':high,
          'low':low,
          'volume':volume}


if __name__=="__main__":
  print getQuote()