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Thanks. Ran it. That's very convincing. Guess I'll have to wait to hear back from the 3rd party.

Daniel Goldfarb
– Daniel Goldfarb

2018-10-05 16:57:12 +00:00
Commented Oct 5, 2018 at 16:57
@DanielGoldfarb Is the 3rd party an open source API with documentation? Happy to help there if it is.

Jenner Felton
– Jenner Felton

2018-10-05 18:46:31 +00:00
Commented Oct 5, 2018 at 18:46
I figured out the problem, thanks to your proof that the issue is definitely not Python. The api I am calling is get_daily() from alpha_vantage (github.com/RomelTorres/alpha_vantage) which is a Python wrapper around the alphavantage.co web API. The problem is the free version of the web API is limited to 5 requests per minute; and the Python wrapper defaults to 5 retries on a failure, so when sent an invalid key it burned up my 5 requests per minute. When I set retries=0 everything worked fine. Thanks for your help!

Daniel Goldfarb
– Daniel Goldfarb

2018-10-07 02:17:48 +00:00
Commented Oct 7, 2018 at 2:17
@DanielGoldfarb Nice sleuthing and congrats on solving your problem! Glad you figured it out!

Jenner Felton
– Jenner Felton

2018-10-08 04:44:45 +00:00
Commented Oct 8, 2018 at 4:44
Although you blame the 3rd Party, this also happens if you just use the plain-old C bindings to python. Calling PyErr_Clear() does not seem to actually clear the error. Investigating now.

Linas
– Linas

2019-01-28 23:03:55 +00:00
Commented Jan 28, 2019 at 23:03

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