Python Google Stock Quotes

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import urllib
import re

def get_quote(symbol):
    base_url = 'http://finance.google.com/finance?q='
    content = urllib.urlopen(base_url + symbol).read()
    m = re.search('class="pr".*?>(.*?)<', content)
    if m:
        quote = m.group(1)
        print symbol + "   " + quote
    else:
        quote = 'no quote available for: ' + symbol
    return quote

items = ["AAPL","GOOG","ININ","EWH","IAU"]
for n in items:
    get_quote(n)
raw_input( )

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