how to feed stock market data into python
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<p>I was looking at how i would go about feeding stock market data into python by means of pandas.</p>

<p>The examples shown on the website of the address above make sense, except it doesn't explain how to select a stock you want to look at the price/historical prices of. </p>

<p>In the very first example, there is a line of code as follows:</p>

<p><code>f = web.DataReader("F", 'yahoo', start, end)</code></p>

<p>So i thought maybe 'yahoo' is how they select a ticker. </p>

<p>But then when i referred to the price of yahoo on '2010-01-04', the values were different from what they have as follows:</p>

<pre><code>Open               10.170000
High               10.280000
Low                10.050000
Close              10.280000
Volume       60855800.000000
Adj Close           9.151094
</code></pre>

<p>which left me utterly confused.</p>