don> I would like to download stock quotes from the web, store them, do don> calculations and sort the results. However I am fairly new and don> don't have a clue how to parse the results of a web page download. don> I can get to the site, but do not know how to request the certain don> data need. Does anyone know how to do this? I would really don> appreciate it.
Before you launch into a screen scraping exercise, you might want to check around to see if there are any web services apis which already provide stock quotes. This might be a good place to start: http://www.programmableweb.com/ Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list