Re: [Tutor] Python3: looping through web address

2016-07-18 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 18/07/16 15:10, Umed Saidov wrote: > No. nothing clever I am afraid. I wanted to create a variable to store > data in pandas format. This seemed like a good way of doing it... but > perhaps not. >>> #open a cvs file with 100+ stock tickers from S&P500. Save in a >>> dataframe 'ticker'. >>> ti

Re: [Tutor] Python3: looping through web address

2016-07-18 Thread Umed Saidov
On 07/18/2016 06:35 AM, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote: Caveat: I'm not a Pandas expert but... This looks odd. You first assign an empty list to ticker and pass that into pandas.DataFrame then assign the result back to ticker. Is that what you intended? Why not just ticker = pd.DataFrame([]) Or i

Re: [Tutor] Python3: looping through web address

2016-07-18 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 18/07/16 03:00, Umed Saidov wrote: > import urllib.request, json > import csv > import pandas as pd > import itertools > > ticker = [] > ticker = pd.DataFrame(ticker) Caveat: I'm not a Pandas expert but... This looks odd. You first assign an empty list to ticker and pass that into pandas.Data

Re: [Tutor] Python3: looping through web address

2016-07-18 Thread Peter Otten
Umed Saidov wrote: > Hello Tutor(s), > > I want to create a loop that loops through a web address, changing only > a part of that address with each loop. I can't seem to be able to get > the code to do this. Below is the code with some explanation of what I > am trying to do. The code seems to lo

[Tutor] Python3: looping through web address

2016-07-18 Thread Umed Saidov
Hello Tutor(s), I want to create a loop that loops through a web address, changing only a part of that address with each loop. I can't seem to be able to get the code to do this. Below is the code with some explanation of what I am trying to do. The code seems to loop through the ticker symbol