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"RECORD" PROBLEM

Hi guys,

this is my second post here on quantopian community and as I told you before, I am pretty new to coding... I am trying to using the "record" function through this line

record(jpm=context.jpm)

but this is what comes out: "Runtime exception: ValueError: Record only supports numeric values. Non-numeric value passed for key 'jpm'"

Can someone please explain me why?

thank you so much for your patience

4 responses

Matteo, I think the error message is reasonably instructive in this particular case. You need to provide the record function an integer or float for recording. context.jpm must be something else (a string, a dict, a dataframe, etc.)

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Josh, thank you so much for your help! I just dont understand how I should change the "nature" of context.jpm... I just wanted to print out the jpm graph and I though it would sufficient to tell python to print out my context.jpm = sid(25006)

How should I do this?

Thank you in advice!

Yes Josh is right. Its a data frame which needs to be converted to be recorded.

record(jpm=data[context.jpm].price)  

thank you so much guys! I really appreciate it