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Value of a 2014 Dollar over Time
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inflation_calculator.py
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
URL = "http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=1.00&year1={year}&year2=2014"
# input a range of years here. The first valid year is 1913.
year_range = xrange(1939, 2014)
print [BeautifulSoup(requests.get(URL.format(year=i)).text).find('span', {'id': 'answer'}).text for i in year_range]
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