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   1 [[ticker.py]] is a simple stock-quote scraper using [[Python]]'s
   2 [urllib2][] to grab pages and [lxml][] to parse the HTML.  It's a
   3 pretty straightforward example of elementary scraping in Python.
   4
   5 [urllib2]: http://docs.python.org/library/urllib2.html
   6 [lxml]: http://codespeak.net/lxml/
   7
   8 [[!tag tags/fun]]
   9 [[!tag tags/python]]
  10 [[!tag tags/tools]]