Re: web client in Python Q

2008-05-08 Thread Jive Dadson
Jerry Hill wrote: On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Jive Dadson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I wonder why it does not work with http://stockcharts.com/webcgi/wb.exe?Data.web+SLW It looks like that is a subscription site. That makes things more complicated, because it means you'll need to figur

Re: web client in Python Q

2008-05-08 Thread Jerry Hill
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Jive Dadson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wonder why it does not work with > > http://stockcharts.com/webcgi/wb.exe?Data.web+SLW It looks like that is a subscription site. That makes things more complicated, because it means you'll need to figure out how to log

Re: web client in Python Q

2008-05-07 Thread Jive Dadson
Thanks, Jerry! That's so cool. I actually managed to blunder through with sockets and so forth, but this is much cleaner. I wonder why it does not work with http://stockcharts.com/webcgi/wb.exe?Data.web+SLW I get a connection reset by peer error. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/p

Re: web client in Python Q

2008-05-07 Thread Jerry Hill
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Jive Dadson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 st

web client in Python Q

2008-05-07 Thread Jive Dadson
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