[Tutor] Help with running an API

[Joel Goldstick]

On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Mark Meanwell <mmeanwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Folks - new to python and trying to run an API. Running version 2.7.3. on
> Windows 7 machine.
>
>  Here is the scenario for the given API (FRED API in this case):
>
> easy_install Fred from C:\ - this installs to C:\site packages
>
> then I fire up the python shell and run file created for fred api:
>
> from fredapi import Fred
> fred = Fred(api_key='my api key')
> data = fred.get_series('SP500')
>
> keep getting below error message:
> ImportError: cannot import name Fred
>
> thanks for any suggestions!

I'm not familiar with FRED, but a quick look on stackoverflow used the
lowercase name to import

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