Download historical stock data from yahoo

gethist.py

#!/usr/bin/python
import sys, os

if len(sys.argv) < 2:
	print """Usage: %s symbol
	where symbol is the stock symbol to fetch
	""" % sys.argv[0]
	sys.exit(1)

cmd = 'curl -o %s.csv http://ichart.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=%s&a=1&b=1&c=2016&d=11&e=22&f=2016' % (sys.argv[1], sys.argv[1])
print cmd
os.system(cmd)