TA-Lib indicator fails with KeyError:

RandyT

Was trying to use a TA-Lib indicator and received the following error:

Using:

self.xx = bt.talib.LINEARREG_ANGLE(self.data.close, timeperiod=10)

Error:

KeyError: <module 'backtrader.talib' from '/home/randy/.virtualenvs/backtrader3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/backtrader/talib.py'>

TA-Lib 0.4.10 is installed. I've also tried using period instead of the standard timeperiod for TA-Lib.

backtrader

period or timeperiod play no role. The error indicates the KeyError to be in the module which should indicate that LINEARREG_ANGLE has not been found.

Being the question if other things like for example a simple moving average are there or not ...

The talib integration simply asks ta-lib which functions are available and dynamically creates the needed classes to wrap them in the ecosystem.

RandyT

@backtrader not sure I understand your response.

Here is what I see:

ipdb> print(bt.talib.LINEARREG_SLOPE.__doc__)
LINEARREG_SLOPE([input_arrays], [timeperiod=14])

Linear Regression Slope (Statistic Functions)

Inputs:
    price: (any ndarray)
Parameters:
    timeperiod: 14
Outputs:
    real
ipdb> self.foo = bt.talib.LINEARREG_SLOPE(self.data.close)
*** KeyError: <module 'backtrader.talib' from '/home/randy/.virtualenvs/backtrader3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/backtrader/talib.py'>
ipdb> self.foo = bt.talib.LINEARREG_SLOPE(self.data.close, timeperiod=14)
*** KeyError: <module 'backtrader.talib' from '/home/randy/.virtualenvs/backtrader3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/backtrader/talib.py'>

backtrader

The question was if you had tried the same with a simple moving average, talib.SMA.

Don't know exactly if the messages from ipdb match exactly those from the standard python interpreter, but the interpretation from

KeyError: <module 'backtrader.talib'

would be that no such thing happens to be in sys.modules, hence the KeyError. Of course that seems to defy the logic of being able to do:

ipdb> print(bt.talib.LINEARREG_SLOPE.__doc__)

and obtaining a result, which seems to indicate the symbol does actually exist in the module and seems to correspond to the actual talib indicator.

The only thing that seems to be missing in the aforementioned information is in which context the code is being executed.

RandyT

Same results with the talib.SMA

I am running the development branch

ipdb> self.xx = bt.talib.SMA(self.data.close)
*** KeyError: <module 'backtrader.talib' from '/home/randy/.virtualenvs/backtrader3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/backtrader/talib.py'>
ipdb> print(bt.talib.SMA.__doc__)
SMA([input_arrays], [timeperiod=30])

Simple Moving Average (Overlap Studies)

Inputs:
    price: (any ndarray)
Parameters:
    timeperiod: 30
Outputs:
    real

RandyT

@backtrader
It was easy enough to test this with master branch and it appears to be working fine there. So seems recent changes might have broken this.

backtrader

New changes have only uncovered a typo in the ta-lib integration by which auto-generated wrappers had the module itself in the __module__ attribute instead of the module name. Corrected in the development branch