Zipline beginner help

[cja...@stern.nyu.edu]

So I've installed Zipline via conda and now I am trying to implement the example strategy from Quantopian but I am getting the error message, 

----> 1 from zipline.api import price

ImportError: No module named api

I'm writing my code using Spyder via Anaconda 2.7, and I'm lost on how to set up my coding environment to start using Zipline. Could anyone help me with detailed instruction on how to set up my python environment (using Spyder) so I can start using Zipline outside of the Quantopian IDE? I understand how to install zipline via conda, but are there any other steps I have to take to start using the functions of Zipline? Pretty much I have Zipline "installed" but I can't use it. Can anyone show me the way? Thanks!!

[Thomas Wiecki]

Can you try to first "import zipline" and then "from zipline.api import price"? `import zipline` first has to register some functions in api (which we should probably fix).

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[Thomas Wiecki]

This is very confusing indeed as it does indeed look like everything was correctly installed.

One idea is that maybe you have an old version that gets imported. Can you provide the output of:

import zipline
print zipline.__version__

print zipline.__file__

Also, is this python 2 or 3?

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 7:12 PM, Curtis James <cja...@stern.nyu.edu> wrote:

Here is a picture of the installation success, can you please help me with the configuration needed to start using Zipline?

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Curtis James <cja...@stern.nyu.edu> wrote:

Thanks for your response Thomas,

I have tried that and I am getting the message:

import zipline

from zipline.api import price

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)

<ipython-input-5-0fb9877edb87> in <module>()

----> 1 from zipline.api import price

ImportError: No module named api

I am still very confused, are there any steps between installing zipline and importing it that I should take? I don't get why it is still not working.

Thanks for your help.

[willip]

Hi, I'm having same issue on a Mac:

conda install -c Quantopian zipline

Fetching package metadata: ......

Solving package specifications: .....................

# All requested packages already installed.

# packages in environment at /Users/Username/anaconda:

#

zipline                   0.7.0                np18py27_0

   

$ python

Python 2.7.8 (default, Jul 13 2014, 17:11:32) 

[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 5.1 (clang-503.0.40)] on darwin

Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

>>> import zipline

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>

ImportError: No module named zipline

>>> 

Please help!

[Thomas Wiecki]

I think you're not using the correct Python. You're using the system one but should be using the anaconda one. After installing anaconda it should ask you to add a path to your .bashrc and then restart the terminal. Have you done that?

Thomas

[willip]

Thomas! You're a Genius! Thank you! I was working with ...

which python

/opt/local/bin/python