Fetch codes of all companies making up the All Ords Index

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from datetime import datetime
import urllib.request
import urllib.response
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup


    

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url = "http://www.marketindex.com.au/all-ordinaries"
resp = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(resp.read(), 'lxml')


    

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table = soup.select("#asx_sp_table > tbody > tr")


    

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all_ords_codes = [row.contents[3].text for row in table ]


    

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with open("all_ords.txt", "w") as f:
    for code in all_ords_codes:
        f.write(code + "\n")


    

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