import urllib.request import time price = 99.99 while price > 4.74: time.sleep(9) page = urllib.request.urlopen("http://www.beans-r-us.biz/prices.html") text = page.read().decode("utf8") where = text.find('>$') start_of_price = where + 2 end_of_price = start_of_price + 4 price = float(text[start_of_price:end_of_price]) print ("Buy!")