from threading import Thread

import urllib2

import re

import os

'''

A multithreaded share price retrieval

'''

# Chage working directory

direct = "C:\\Python2.7\\PythonWebScraping\\7_MultiThread"

os.chdir(direct)

# Stringify words

symbolsList = open("ASX_Top100.txt").read()

symbolsList = symbolsList.split("\n")

print symbolsList

def thread(shareCode):

pageUrl = "https://au.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=" + shareCode + ".AX"

htmlfile = urllib2.urlopen(pageUrl)

htmltext = htmlfile.read()

regex = '<span id="yfs_l84_'+shareCode.lower()+'.ax">(.+?)</span>'

pattern = re.compile(regex)

results = re.findall(pattern,htmltext)

print "the price of " + str(shareCode) + " is " + str(results[0])

threadList = []

for symbol in symbolsList:

print symbol

target = Thread(target=thread,args=(symbol,))

target.start()

threadList.append(target)

#Join threads back

for b in threadList:

b.join()