From 670f3c106fec948fa933dd7b8d92c4b98e5421c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Scott Sanderson Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 13:09:04 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] DOC: Clarify how AssetExists() is special. --- zipline/pipeline/term.py | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/zipline/pipeline/term.py b/zipline/pipeline/term.py index 4174f495..95b444d2 100644 --- a/zipline/pipeline/term.py +++ b/zipline/pipeline/term.py @@ -320,6 +320,9 @@ class AssetExists(Term): every asset on every date. We don't subclass Filter, however, because `AssetExists` is computed directly by the PipelineEngine. + This term is guaranteed to be available as an input for any term computed + by SimplePipelineEngine.run_pipeline(). + See Also -------- zipline.assets.AssetFinder.lifetimes