Does this dataframe look correct?

MRAB python at mrabarnett.plus.com
Sun Jun 28 21:53:25 EDT 2020


On 2020-06-28 23:11, Jim wrote:
> linux mint 19.3, python 3.6
> 
> I wrote a program to download stock info from yahoo using yfinance. I
> have been running it unchanged for the past 3 months, today it gave an
> error. When looping through a list of stocks the error is random, never
> the same position in the list.
> 
> I wrote the following little test script to show the error:
> 
> import yfinance as yf
> import pandas as pd
> day = '2020-06-25'
> aapl = yf.Ticker('AAPL')
> hist = aapl.history(start=day)
> print(hist)
> close = hist.loc[day]['Close']
> 
> I ran it 10 times 8 times I got a dataframe and 2 times I got the error
> shown below:
> 
> (env36) jfb at jims-mint18 ~ $ /home/jfb/EVs/env36/bin/python3
> /home/jfb/Dev/Python/test_yfinance.py
>                 Open    High     Low   Close    Volume
> Date
> 
> 2020-06-25  360.70  365.00  357.57  364.84  34380600
> 2020-06-26  364.41  365.32  353.02  353.63  51270100
> 
> (env36) jfb at jims-mint18 ~ $ /home/jfb/EVs/env36/bin/python3
> /home/jfb/Dev/Python/test_yfinance.py
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>     File "/home/jfb/Dev/Python/test_yfinance.py", line 13, in <module>
>       hist = aapl.history(start=day)
>     File
> "/home/jfb/EVs/env36/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yfinance/base.py", line
> 155, in history
>       data = data.json()
>     File
> "/home/jfb/EVs/env36/lib/python3.6/site-packages/requests/models.py",
> line 897, in json
>       return complexjson.loads(self.text, **kwargs)
>     File
> "/home/jfb/EVs/env36/lib/python3.6/site-packages/simplejson/__init__.py",
> line 518, in loads
>       return _default_decoder.decode(s)
>     File
> "/home/jfb/EVs/env36/lib/python3.6/site-packages/simplejson/decoder.py",
> line 370, in decode
>       obj, end = self.raw_decode(s)
>     File
> "/home/jfb/EVs/env36/lib/python3.6/site-packages/simplejson/decoder.py",
> line 400, in raw_decode
>       return self.scan_once(s, idx=_w(s, idx).end())
> simplejson.errors.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
> 
> I don't know pandas that well. My only contact with it is when a module
> I am using depends on it. So does the dataframe look correct?
> 
> The error complains of line 1, column 1. Just looking at the dataframe
> it looks like Date is on a different line from the rest of the headers
> or is that just the result of being printed in the terminal?
> 
> On the yfinance github issues page there were a few people reporting
> this error. A couple of people reported a work around using try/except.
> It worked for some people and not others. It didn't work for me.
> 
> I'd appreciate any advice you could give.
> 
It's complaining about the JSON data that it's getting. What does that 
data look like when it complains?

It might be that there's some kind of limit to how often you can get the 
data and it's trying to tell you that, but you're not expecting anything 
back except the data.

You could add some temporary code at line 897 of 
"/home/jfb/EVs/env36/lib/python3.6/site-packages/requests/models.py" to 
save the data to a file just before the decoding. Remember to make a 
backup copy of any source file that you modify!


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