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This was discussed several time in the forum. Just dig deeper, try to search for word multi. Also it was a blog post published which can give ideas -

Blog - Multi Example

@niklay said in How to access the "params" tuple?:

I started with the Quickstart tutorials and found some confusing code (see attached). The "params" tuple is created with two separate tuples inside. However, I can access these inside tuples by typing params.maperiod .

What's exactly the confusing part? You declare params (which you can also declare as a dict) and you can access them. It's a declarative style. As pointed out by @Laurent-Michelizza , there is a shorhand notation where params is shortened to p

@niklay said in How to access the "params" tuple?:

However, if I rename params to another name I cannot access them anymore.

Of course. How are you expecting the platform to know which params have been defined if you give the declaration a different name?

@niklay said in Cannot find file "orcl-1995-2014.txt" from the Quickstart tutorial:

pip install backtrader

This installs a Python package and not the complete content of the source code repository. Follow the advice from @ThatBlokeDave or else clone the repository. As laid out in the repository, the scripts know where to find the data files.