Downloading list of stocks failed

[hatala91]

Downloading a list of stocks using the package in Python 3.3 under Windows 7 failed with the following stack trace (same result with secure and insecure connection):

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\requests-2.10.0-py3.3.egg\requests\packages\urllib3\connection.py", line 142, in _new_conn
(self.host, self.port), self.timeout, **extra_kw)
File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\requests-2.10.0-py3.3.egg\requests\packages\urllib3\util\connection.py", line 91, in create_connection
raise err
File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\requests-2.10.0-py3.3.egg\requests\packages\urllib3\util\connection.py", line 81, in create_connection
sock.connect(sa)
TimeoutError: [WinError 10060] A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond

Pinging finance.yahoo.com does not raise any issues though!

[Benny-]

Thank you for your report. This will be investigated but it might take a while; there is no ETA yet.

[Benny-]

@hatala91 can you tell me how you installed the software on Windows

[hatala91]

Sure, I downloaded your package extracted it somewhere opened a command line and wrote

python setup.py install

[Benny-]

It was not possible to reproduce this bug in windows 10 using requests-2.11.0.