#define a function which will take the stock data and plot the graph
def graph_data(stock):
stock_data_url = 'http://chartapi.finance.yahoo.com/instrument/1.0/'+stock+'/chartdata;type=quote;range=10y/csv'
source_code = urllib.request.urlopen(stock_data_url).read().decode()
stock_data =[]
split_source = source_code.split('\n') #split the code based on next line
#lets grab only the relevant stock data
for line in split_source:
split_line = line.split(',')
if(len(split_line))==6:
if 'values' not in line and 'labels' not in line:
stock_data.append(line)
date, closep, highp, lowp, openp, volume = np.loadtxt(stock_data, delimiter=',',unpack=True,
converters={0: bytespdate2num('%Y%m%d')})
plt.plot_date(date,closep,'-', label='Price')
plt.xlabel('Date')
plt.ylabel('Price')
plt.title('Interesting stock graph from yahoo')
plt.legend()