title: 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>