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Using the yahoo finance module (pip install it), get the historical price of a stock
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yahoo_get_historical_stock_price.py
from yahoo_finance import Share
def get_stock_price_history(share_code, start_date, end_date):
"""
start_date/end_date are of format: YYYY-MM-DD
"""
stock = Share(share_code)
sopen = stock.get_open()
if not sopen:
print "Wrong stock code"
return
return stock.get_historical(start_date, end_date)
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