Ugh, <flame on> Reading mail like this makes me go ballistic. In the name of the devil, why would anyone fork this project?
F::Q handles over a dozen quote sources, not just yahoo. This is because Yahoo lacks many of the more important financial data; it seems to be concentrated mostly on stocks and specifically on stocks traded on the NYSE. GnuCash uses F::Q so that it can get data from these other sources as well. I *strongly* encourage everyone involved to merge these 'new/improved' features and bug fixes in F::YQ back into F::Q so that we can support one programming interface instead of a dozen. </flame off> --linas On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 01:11:28PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel was heard to remark: > > Jason, > > As Dj states, I am the current maintainer for the Finance::YahooQuote module > he created -- given that I have also been maintaining it for Debian for > several years now, and continue rely on it for data acquisition in my own > smtm and beancounter projects (which you can find on CPAN, in Debian or on > my own site). > > I am somewhat unsure why you emailed Dj given that problem is/was with the > unrelated (though covering similar functionality) Finance::Quote module. > > In any case, as you can see below from using the example yahooquote frontend > script, F::YQ also does what you dislike in F::Q (and allow me to add that > F::YQ can now retrieve many more fields from Yahoo, incl. real-time ones, > which have not been reflected in the example frontend yahooquote used here). > > You will need to assess if it covers your other needs. Adding another layer > which replaces the returned symbol with the initial symbol should be > straightforward. > > If you have further questions, please feel free to ask me directly. > > Best regards, Dirk > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> yahooquote --verbose pfe > Symbol: PFE > Name: PFIZER INC > Last: 30.68 > Trade Date: 10/15/2003 > Trade Time: 1:37pm > Change: -0.20 > % Change: -0.65% > Volume: 12201700 > Avg. Daily Volume: 19174863 > Bid: N/A > Ask: N/A > Prev. Close: 30.88 > Open: 30.88 > Day's Range: 30.61 - 30.95 > 52-Week Range: 27.90 - 36.92 > EPS: 0.62 > P/E Ratio: 49.81 > Div. Pay Date: Sep 4 > Div/Share: 0.60 > Div. Yield: 1.94 > Mkt. Cap: 238.9B > Exchange: NYSE > > > For reference, this from the most recent 0.20 version of Finance::YahooQuote > as packaged in Debian's libfinance-yahooquote-perl: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> dpkg -l libfinance-yahooquote-perl > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold > | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed > |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: > uppercase=bad) > ||/ Name Version > Description > +++-===================================-===================================-====================================================================================== > ii libfinance-yahooquote-perl 0.20 > Perl module for retrieving stock quotes from Yahoo! Finance > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> dpkg -L libfinance-yahooquote-perl > /. > /usr > /usr/lib > /usr/lib/perl5 > /usr/share > /usr/share/perl5 > /usr/share/perl5/Finance > /usr/share/perl5/Finance/YahooQuote.pm > /usr/share/man > /usr/share/man/man1 > /usr/share/man/man1/yahooquote.1p.gz > /usr/share/man/man3 > /usr/share/man/man3/Finance::YahooQuote.3pm.gz > /usr/share/doc > /usr/share/doc/libfinance-yahooquote-perl > /usr/share/doc/libfinance-yahooquote-perl/README > /usr/share/doc/libfinance-yahooquote-perl/CHANGES.old > /usr/share/doc/libfinance-yahooquote-perl/copyright > /usr/share/doc/libfinance-yahooquote-perl/examples > /usr/share/doc/libfinance-yahooquote-perl/examples/examine_server.sh > /usr/share/doc/libfinance-yahooquote-perl/examples/symbol_alias.sh > /usr/share/doc/libfinance-yahooquote-perl/changelog.gz > /usr/bin > /usr/bin/yahooquote > > > > > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 10:12:50AM -0700, Dj Padzensky wrote: > > > > Unfortunately, you missed the person who's actually maintaining the > > code :-) > > > > Dirk is the official maintainer of the F::YQ code now. Please direct > > your questions to him. > > > > Thanks! > > > > --Dj > > > > > > Begin forwarded message: > > > > >From: "Jason A. Pattie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Date: Wed Oct 15, 2003 9:38:37 AM US/Pacific > > >To: "Dj Padzensky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Linas Vepstas" > > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Yannick LE NY" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Paul > > >Fenwick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Brent Neal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Subject: [Fwd: Patch for Finance::Quote::Yahoo::Base.pm] > > >X-Sf-Sender: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > >Hash: SHA1 > > > > > >I have not received a response to my original e-mail, so I am resending > > >it in the hopes that it will reach the right people. > > > > > >If this project is dead or not being updated any longer, would it be > > >possible to host our own version of the module, since we will continue > > >to need to use it and modify it, especially as the different brokerage > > >firms' websites update their parameters, etc.? > > > > > >Thank you. > > > > > >- -------- Original Message -------- > > >Subject: Patch for Finance::Quote::Yahoo::Base.pm > > >Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 14:53:40 -0500 > > >From: Jason A. Pattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >To: Paul Fenwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > >Hello. > > > > > >I've run into a situation where we use Finance::Quote at work for a > > >project to lookup stock prices from Yahoo! Finance and chose to use > > >your > > >solution to this problem. We had previously been downloading and > > >parsing the .csv files ourselves and grabbing the data but wanted a > > >more > > >abstracted approach to increase the ease of programming, and to be able > > >to pull from multiple sources, etc. One thing that I've noticed is > > >that > > >the ticker symbols that are sent to Finance::Quote (in particular the > > >Yahoo! fetch method, since I haven't used any other -- not currently a > > >need to, yet) are modified -- always. The "case" of the returned > > >symbol > > >comes from Yahoo! and is not the original that I sent to it. So, for > > >example, if I send 'pfe' (to lookup Pfizer Inc. data) to the fetch > > >method, the returned symbol from Yahoo! Finance will be 'PFE'. > > >Finance::Quote, in my opinion, does not handle this correctly and > > >changes the ticker symbol in the %info hash to 'PFE' instead of > > >returning 'pfe' as I passed in. This has basically made it impossible > > >to determine from the original list of "case"-sensitive symbols that I > > >sent to Finance::Quote which failed and which did not and that some > > >were > > >failing when they actually, really succeeded. I modified the > > >Finance::Quote::Yahoo::Base.pm module to make it so that the symbol > > >that > > >was used to lookup the data is the one used by the %info hash and not > > >the returned symbol from Yahoo! Finance. > > > > > >This may or may not be the functionality that you desire. If not, I > > >haven't come across a good way to efficiently search case-insensitively > > >against the %info hash for my original value so that 'pfe' would match > > >'PFE' (or 'tapa' would match 'TAPa', for example; obviously, not > > >everything comes back all uppercase, just most things). > > > > > >Thank you very much. > > >(I hope I'm sending this to the correct person. I saw a huge list of > > >maintainers in the code, and you were second from the bottom of the > > >list > > >of most recent). > > > > > >- -- > > >Jason A. Pattie > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >Xperience, Inc. (http://www.xperienceinc.com) > > > > > > > > >- -- > > >Jason A. Pattie > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >Xperience, Inc. (http://www.xperienceinc.com) > > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > >Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > >Comment: Using GnuPG with Debian - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > > > > >iD8DBQE/jXgNuYsUrHkpYtARAvIAAJ9g4c6U8Ms3ECqrex8g63cMaTDEnACfUW7c > > >Y+oVUf8dnOpq6DnAT9oa2zw= > > >=HOmJ > > >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > >-- > > >This message has been scanned for viruses and > > >dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > > >believed to be clean. > > >Mailscanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. > > > > > >--- Base_old.pm 2003-08-22 14:29:55.000000000 -0500 > > >+++ Base_new.pm 2003-08-22 14:22:14.000000000 -0500 > > >@@ -147,6 +147,13 @@ > > > # The suffix is used to specify particular markets. > > > my $suffix = shift || ""; > > > > > >+ # create an index by using a hash to lookup tickers > > >case-insensitively > > >+ my %lookuphash = (); > > >+ foreach my $orig_symbol (@orig_symbols) > > >+ { > > >+ $lookuphash{lc("$orig_symbol")} = $orig_symbol; > > >+ } > > >+ > > > my %info; > > > my $ua = $quoter->user_agent; > > > > > >@@ -177,6 +184,8 @@ > > > # Strip out suffixes. Mmmm, functions as lvalues. > > > substr($symbol,-length($suffix),length($suffix)) = > > > ""; > > > > > >+ $symbol = $lookuphash{lc("$symbol")}; > > >+ > > > # If we weren't using a two dimesonal > > > # hash, we could do the following with > > > # a hash-slice. Alas, we can't. This just > > > > > > > -- > Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others. > -- Groucho Marx -- pub 1024D/01045933 2001-02-01 Linas Vepstas (Labas!) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Key fingerprint = 8305 2521 6000 0B5E 8984 3F54 64A9 9A82 0104 5933 _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
