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Alan G.
On 20/02/17 14:32, Joe via Tutor wrote:
> Hi,
> I keep getting the following error as I am new to programming and I am
> following a tutorial and I am using Python 3.6. Can you please point me in
> the right direction as to what I am doing wrong. This is code I am running
> import datetime as dtimport matplotlib.pyplot as pltfrom matplotlib import
> style#from matplotlib.finance import candlestick_ohlcimport matplotlib.dates
> as mdatesimport pandas as pdimport pandas_datareader.data as webimport bs4 as
> bsimport pickleimport requestsimport osimport csvimport numpy as npimport time
> style.use('ggplot')
> def save_tsx_tickers(): resp =
> requests.get('http://web.tmxmoney.com/indices.php?section=tsx&index=%5ETSX')
> soup = bs.BeautifulSoup(resp.text, "lxml") table = soup.find('table',
> {'class': 'indices-table'}) tickers = [] for row in
> table.findAll('tr')[1:]: ticker = row.findAll('td')[1].text
> tickers.append(ticker.replace(".","-") + ".TO")
> with open("tsxtickers.pickle", "wb") as f: pickle.dump(tickers, f)
> #print(tickers) return tickers
> def get_data_from_yahoo(reload_tsx = False): if reload_tsx: tickers
> = save_tsx_tickers() else: with open("tsxtickers.pickle", "rb") as
> f: tickers = pickle.load(f)
> if not os.path.exists('stock_dfs'): os.makedirs('stock_dfs')
> start = dt.datetime(2000, 1, 1) end = dt.datetime(2016, 12, 31)
> for i in tickers: if not
> os.path.exists('stock_dfs/{}.csv'.format(i)): time.sleep(2)
> df = web.DataReader(i, 'yahoo', start, end)
> df.to_csv('stock_dfs/{}.csv'.format(i)) else:
> print('Already have {}'.format(i))
>
>
> However, I keep getting this error. Please help in identifying the problem.
> Thank you.
>
>
> Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#3>", line 1, in <module>
> get_data_from_yahoo() File "C:\Users\Joe\Desktop\joe\Tutorial Python.py",
> line 50, in get_data_from_yahoo df = web.DataReader(i, 'yahoo', start,
> end) File
> "C:\Users\Joe\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\pandas_datareader\data.py",
> line 116, in DataReader session=session).read() File
> "C:\Users\Joe\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\pandas_datareader\yahoo\daily.py",
> line 76, in read df = super(YahooDailyReader, self).read() File
> "C:\Users\Joe\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\pandas_datareader\base.py",
> line 155, in read df = self._read_one_data(self.url,
> params=self._get_params(self.symbols)) File
> "C:\Users\Joe\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\pandas_datareader\base.py",
> line 74, in _read_one_data out = self._read_url_as_StringIO(url,
> params=params) File "C:\Users\Joe\AppData\Local
\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\pandas_datareader\base.py",
line 85, in _read_url_as_StringIO response = self._get_response(url,
params=params) File
"C:\Users\Joe\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\pandas_datareader\base.py",
line 120, in _get_response raise RemoteDataError('Unable to read URL:
{0}'.format(url))pandas_datareader._utils.RemoteDataError: Unable to read URL:
http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=OTEX.TO&a=0&b=1&c=2000&d=11&e=31&f=2016&g=d&ignore=.csv
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