Code in Quickstart No Longer Working

[John Hwang]

In the quickstart, there's this bit where you initialize the datafeed for Backtrader.

datapath = os.path.join(modpath, '../../datas/orcl-1995-2014.txt')

# Create a Data Feed
data = bt.feeds.YahooFinanceCSVData(
    dataname=datapath,

This bit is broken it seems, getting FileNotFoundError. Did I forget to install something? Where do I get this 'orcl-1995-2014.txt' file?

[backtrader]

Code in Quickstart No Longer Working

When has it stopped working? (Because you say that it is no longer working)

@john-hwang said in Code in Quickstart No Longer Working:

Did I forget to install something?

You didn't tell us what you installed.

@john-hwang said in Code in Quickstart No Longer Working:

This bit is broken it seems, getting FileNotFoundError

No. It's not broken. It's simply not finding the file.

@john-hwang said in Code in Quickstart No Longer Working:

datapath = os.path.join(modpath, '../../datas/orcl-1995-2014.txt')

This is the file which is not found.

@john-hwang said in Code in Quickstart No Longer Working:

Where do I get this 'orcl-1995-2014.txt' file?

You obviously copied the code from the online documentation, rather than getting the samples and the data files together from the github repository. Go there: https://github.com/backtrader/backtrader

[siavash]

Hello,
Modpath variable is the code file location.One solution is that you download and copy orcl-1995-2014.txt file to in the code file location and cleaning '../../datas/ from the code.
have nice day