Requisites for live data extraction and display

[Denniz]

Dear all,

im a noob, but would like to create a monitor for certain purposes.
a friend told me python would be a viable option to conceive this in.
its functionality is as follows:
-extract data from a website that displays live data every second
-allow for entering parameters
-propagate extracted data and entered parameters through equations
-sort results of said equations in a continuously sorted list
-display this live sorted list

could anyone tell me on how to go about this, if possible at all
also, which language (wx, tkinter etc) would be best?

much appreciated

[nilamo]

Getting data from a webpage: look into the requests module.
Extracting data from that page: look into the BeautifulSoup module.

Entering parameters is just variables and personal preference.
Sorting is as simple as calling .sort() on your things, or shoving the things in a small database like sqllite and letting that sort for you (if you have a ton of data over a long enough time frame).

Displaying the data is, again, personal preference. A webpage? bi-hourly texts? A few windows on your spare monitor?