My First Python Project Dealing With Finance Data

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what's going on everyone I am a little excited about this I've been playing around trying to learn Python and I do a lot of stuff with our but I've been wanting to learn Python for like general-purpose things and just utility like its syntax I've heard a lot of great things and after taking a little bit of a a few lessons trying out a couple minor things I did really like the syntax so I tried to actually create a project something that I actually would really use and so what I wrote was something that would get me all of the information on my current investment portfolio so for each investment I have what's the current clothes price for the last clothes price for the fund or stock what's my current share amount like how many shares do I have and then what's the total amount I have of that item in you know the monetary value and that I wanted to see what it's the entire amount of my current portfolio holdings now none of the data I'm going to show is actually what I have obviously so this is just test data of some like common stocks you know like Tesla Ford ge whatever but I wrote this using only the Yahoo Finance module and date time module I wrote a couple functions other they are kind of duplicated and I'm sure that a lot of this could be abstracted away a little bit with some better usage of Python but I got it working and it was not very difficult I just spent a couple hours just plugging away at this trying to make it work and it works and I'm quite happy with just how I got something to function and actually serve a purpose very easily with this syntax so what does it look like so you can update with a couple tuples in here of just what's your ticker symbol is a string and then the amount of shares you have let's add some decimals because why not so you can have this and then if you have any cash holdings in like a money market or something you can just update that number but this is what feeds everything is just this list of ticker and share counts and then your cash so I can save that and then let's run it so python and it'll tell you for each your stocks what is the last closed price how many shares you have and what is the total amount of value for that ticker or fund or whatever that you have and then at the bottom it'll tell you the entire total of your holdings this one actually shouldn't be displaying total oh I need to round that but yes so this is something I just caught working I am really happy with this if anyone could tell me how I could get rid of all of these completed lines that'll be really hopeful but yeah my first project in Python and I'm quite happy with it let me know what you think