Retrieving historical financial data with python

Requirements

• ystockquote 
• pandas

Here is the sample python code, which will retrieve historical data from yahoo on any financial instrument (e.g. Google).

	import pandas as pd
	from pandas import Series, DataFrame
	import ystockquote
	his1 = ystockquote.get_historical_prices('GOOG', '2013-01-01', '2014-01-01')
	stock1 = DataFrame(his1)
	print stock1
	##if you just want e.g. the closing price
	close_s1 = stock1.ix['Close']
	print close_s1

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