I am very eager to watch markets and would like to have a desktop widget which would show me stock prices.

I actually previously wrote simple small application with .NET to fetch stock prices from kauppalehti.fi (shows data from Finnish helsinki stock exhange (OMXH)) and today did a rough conversion to python:

http://pastebin.com/mb4cb6e7

It is not elegant, has no documentation and uses shitty variable names; but works. What would be best way to move forward from here? I have yet no idea how to do desktop widgets. Users probably don't want to see all of the stocks, just some which are most interesting.

(to run that, copy / paste it into stock.py file, then type python stock.py in console.)

I'm not sure how you would move forward, but just so you know I'm very interested in using this an app like this