python interface to Bloomberg data for Pandas

Bloomberg Open API and python pandas

This package is not yet on pypi manual global install is as follows:

pip install git+https://github.com/kyuni22/pybbg 

New Functions bds and bdp

• bdh(tickers, fields, start date, end date, period selection) - similar interface with Bloomberg Excel API's bdh fucntion
  • tickers - one ticker as a string or a list of strings
  • fields - one field as a string or a list of strings (mnemonics or calcroutes from FLDS screen)
    • if one field is used, the second index on the data frame is removed otherwise a multi-index data frame is used
  • start/end date - end date defaults to today
  • period selection - default to daily
• bdp(tickers, fields) - similar to excel bdp
  • tickers - one string or a list of strings
  • fields - one field or a list of fields
  • returns a table where columns are tickers and rows are fields, cell values are values
  • now with overrides
• bds(ticker, field) - similar to excel BDS
  • ticker - one ticker at a time
  • field - one "bulk data" field at a time
  • returns the bulk data table as seen in FLDS as a pandas data frame
• bdib(ticker, field list, start date and time, end date and time, event type, interval) - get intraday bar data and convert to pandas

• bdh and bdib in IPython Notebook
• bdp bds bdh in python unittest