This data bundle will use the quantopian mirror of the quandl WIKI data
instead of downloading from quandl directly. This dramatically improves
the speed because we do not pay the rate limiting for quandl and we can
send the data in the format zipline expects.
Adds the data bundle concept which makes it easy for users to register
loading functions to build out minute and daily data along with an
assets db and adjustments db. By default we have provided a `quandl`
bundle which pulls from the public domain WIKI dataset. Users may
register new bundles by decorating an ingest function with
`zipline.data.bundles.register(<name>)`. This also provides a
`yahoo_equities` function for creating an ingestion function that will
load a static set of assets from yahoo.
The cli is now structured as a couple of subcommands and has been
changed to `python -m zipline`. The old behavior of `run_algo.py` has
been moved to the `run` subcommand. This is almost entirely the same
except that it now takes the name of the data bundle to use, defaulting
to `quandl`.
The next subcommand is `ingest` which takes the name of
a data bundle to ingest. This will run the loading machinery and write
the data to a specified location that `run` can find.
There is also a `clean` subcommand which deletes the data that was
written with `ingest`.
Extensions have also been added to zipline. This is an experimental
feature where users can provide an extra set of python files to run at
the start of the process. These can be used to configure aspects of
zipline. Right now the only thing that is supported in an extension file
is the registration of a new data bundle.
Updates the BcolzMinuteBarWriter.write api to allow users to pass their
data as a stream instead of requiring that they loop over their data
externally. This matches the API presented by BcolzDailyBarWriter.
Changes BcolzDailyBarWriter to not be an abc, data is passed as an
iterator of (sid, dataframe) pairs to the write method.
Changes the AssetsDBWriter to be a single class which accepts an engine
at construction time and has a `write` method for writing dataframes for
the various tables. We no longer support writing the various other data
types, callers should coerce their data into a dataframe themselves. See
zipline.assets.synthetic for some helpers to do this.
Adds many new fixtures and updates some existing fixtures to use the new
ones:
WithDefaultDateBounds
A fixture that provides the suite a START_DATE and END_DATE. This is
meant to make it easy for other fixtures to synchronize their date
ranges without depending on eachother in strange ways. For example,
WithBcolzMinuteBarReader and WithBcolzDailyBarReader by default should
both have data for the same dates, so they may use depend on
WithDefaultDates without forcing a dependency between them.
WithTmpDir, WithInstanceTmpDir
Provides the suite or individual test case a temporary directory.
WithBcolzDailyBarReader
Provides the suite a BcolzDailyBarReader which reads from bcolz data
written to a temporary directory. The data will be read from
dataframes and then converted to bcolz files with
BcolzDailyBarWriter.write
WithBcolzDailyBarReaderFromCSVs
Provides the suite a BcolzDailyBarReader which reads from bcolz data
written to a temporary directory. The data will be read from a
collection of CSV files and then converted into the bcolz data through
BcolzDailyBarWriter.write_csvs
WithBcolzMinuteBarReader
Provides the suite a BcolzMinuteBarReader which reads from bcolz data
written to a temporary directory. The data will be read from
dataframes and then converted to bcolz files with
BcolzMinuteBarWriter.write
WithAdjustmentReader
Provides the suite a SQLiteAdjustmentReader which reads from an in
memory sqlite database. The data will be read from dataframes and then
converted into sqlite with SQLiteAdjustmentWriter.write
WithDataPortal
Provides each test case a DataPortal object with data from temporary
resources.
Renames zipline.utils.test_utils to zipline.testing
Adds zipline.testing.fixtures.ZiplineTestCase to manage setup and
teardown and adds mixins to define fixtures like an asset finder or
trading calendar.
Joe Jevnik