Added support for persistence indicator

Changed from years to months
Added function to scrape Yahoo Finance for indicator data
Moved generic functions to Functions.py
Added function to scrape websites for stocks
Attempted to alleviate problem of async function

.gitignore

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 __pycache__/
 test/
 .vscode/
-requests_cache.sqlite
-README.html
+*.sqlite
+README.html
+*stocks.txt

Functions.py

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 # Python file for general functions
 
-
 def getNearest(items, pivot):
     return min(items, key=lambda x: abs(x - pivot))
 
@@ -58,6 +57,77 @@ def fromCache(r):
     return
 
 
+def getJoke():
+    import requests
+    import requests_cache
+    with requests_cache.disabled():
+        '''
+        f = requests.get('https://official-joke-api.appspot.com/jokes/random').json()
+        print('')
+        print(f['setup'])
+        print(f['punchline'], end='\n\n')
+        '''
+        headers = {'Accept': 'application/json',
+                   'User-Agent': 'fund-indicators (https://github.com/andrewkdinh/fund-indicators)'}
+        f = requests.get('https://icanhazdadjoke.com/', headers=headers).json()
+        print('')
+        print(f['joke'])
+
+
+def hasNumbers(inputString):
+    return any(char.isdigit() for char in inputString)
+
+
+def checkPackages(listOfPackages):
+    import importlib.util
+    import sys
+
+    packagesInstalled = True
+    packages = listOfPackages
+    for i in range(0, len(packages), 1):
+        package_name = packages[i]
+        spec = importlib.util.find_spec(package_name)
+        if spec is None:
+            print(
+                package_name +
+                " is not installed\nPlease enter 'pip install -r requirements.txt' to install all required packages")
+            packagesInstalled = False
+    return packagesInstalled
+
+
+def checkPythonVersion():
+    import platform
+    #print('Checking Python version')
+    i = platform.python_version()
+    r = i.split('.')
+    k = float(''.join((r[0], '.', r[1])))
+    if k < 3.3:
+        print('Your Python version is', i,
+              '\nIt needs to be greater than version 3.3')
+        return False
+    else:
+        print('Your Python version of', i, 'is good')
+        return True
+
+
+def isConnected():
+    import socket  # To check internet connection
+    try:
+        # connect to the host -- tells us if the host is actually reachable
+        socket.create_connection(("www.andrewkdinh.com", 80))
+        print('Internet connection is good')
+        return True
+    except OSError:
+        # pass
+        print("No internet connection!")
+    return False
+
+
+def fileExists(file):
+    import os.path
+    return os.path.exists(file)
+
+
 def main():
     exit()
 

requirements.txt

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 requests~=2.21.0
 numpy~=1.15.4
+beautifulsoup4~=4.7.1
 requests-cache~=0.4.13 # NOT REQUIRED