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from datetime import datetime


def build_request_url(symbol, start_date, end_date):
    """
    This function should take a stock symbol as a string
    along with the start and end dates as Python dates
    and return the yahoo csv download url.
    """
    values = { 'symbol' : symbol,
               'a' : start_date.month-1,
               'b' : start_date.day,
               'c' : start_date.year,
               'd' : end_date.month-1,
               'e' : end_date.day,
               'f' : end_date.year }
    return u'http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=%(symbol)s&a=%(a)i&b=%(b)i&c=%(c)i&d=%(d)i&e=%(e)i&f=%(f)i&g=d&ignore=.csv' % values