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SIDData confusion

In the documentation, it says that the data brought through fetcher will be parsed into a pandas dataframe object. Whenever I call a pandas method on that dataframe, however, I get an error. How can I successfully call pandas methods on the dataframe?

Any help is appreciated - Jacob

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I followed up with Jacob on this one by email. The dataframe that he was referring to is only for the pre_func and post_func functions passed to fetch_csv().

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Yeah, getting historical fetch_csv data from within handle_data has been coming up a lot lately!

The way i understand it, one has to make any dataframe related calculations at the initial stage with pre_func, then pass them on into handle_data

Yeah, I needed to calculate some averages of ratios of two fetched data sets which is why I wrote the workaround I did.