new stooq datareader no longer downloads indices

[EcoFin]

The stooq 0.7.0 datareader downloads individual symbols provided as either "AAPL" or "AAPL.US". But it will no longer download indices (e.g. "^SPX"), and returns an empty dataframe. Apparently, stooq.py was rewritten to automatically append ".US" in the absence of any other country indicator. But indices do not take a country indicator (it's "^SPX", not "^SPX.US"). For now, I have simply replaced the new stooq.py with the version 0.6.0 one. But a fix would be welcome.

[gliptak]

This was addressed with #591

[Rias9371J]

@gliptak I just tried this; but it still doesn't work

import pandas_datareader.data as web
print(web.DataReader('^DJI', 'stooq'))

[gliptak]

@Rias9371J confirmed, #591 didn't seem to have been released

@bashtage 0.7 releases at

https://github.com/pydata/pandas-datareader/releases

do not seem to have current version of https://github.com/pydata/pandas-datareader/blob/master/pandas_datareader/stooq.py

Are the 0.7 releases patch only?

[addisonlynch]

@gliptak @Rias9371J correct...0.7.x releases were patches for py2 compatibility. The work in #591 will be released in 0.8.0. For now installing latest dev version via master git branch should solve the issue.

[Rias9371J]

@addisonlynch Awesome! Thank you - will stay tuned;