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pandas demo: reading data from Yahoo
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| # Last updated: 2017 | |
| import pandas.io.data as web | |
| # Read the stock price data from Yahoo | |
| apple = web.DataReader('AAPL', 'yahoo', start = '01/01/2012', end = '25/10/2012') | |
| # Display several lines | |
| apple[0:5] | |
| # Plot closing prices | |
| apple['Close'].plot() |
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If I copy this in canopy there appears the error message:
NameError Traceback (most recent call last)
C:\Users\Paul\AppData\Local\Enthought\Canopy32\App\appdata\canopy-1.3.0.1715.win-x86\lib\site-packages\IPython\utils\py3compat.pyc in execfile(fname, glob, loc)
C:\Users\Paul\AppData\Local\Enthought\Canopy32\App\appdata\canopy-1.3.0.1715.win-x86\Lib\site-packages\IPython\utils\py3compat.py in ()
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4 # Read the stock price data from Yahoo
----> 5 apple = DataReader('AAPL', 'yahoo', start = '01/01/2012', end = '25/10/2012')
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7 # Display several lines
NameError: name 'DataReader' is not defined