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build error "The Efficient Frontier: Markowitz Portfolio optimization in Python" code
kumar d
posted Nov 1, 2015
Seeking Help Research

hello people,
I have encountered an error in the build which I am unable to get working. Kindly help me.
This code is from Research, tutorial with the above topic

In [12]
for stock, weight in zip(prices.columns.values, weights):
order_target_percent(sid(stock), weight)

I am getting the following build errors

111 Warning Undefined name 'get_pricing'
171 Error The sid(id) method takes one parameter
172 Warning Local variable 'e' is assigned to but never used

Sorry if this wasnt the correct forum to post. This is a first time for me.
Thanks

1 response
Alisa Deychman
Nov 10, 2015

Kumar, do you still need help with this? If so, could you share your entire notebook (by attaching it to a post)? That will help us see how your code is structured and what it's trying to do.

Cheers,
Alisa

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