Install the Example Quote Source

PalOMoney includes an example external quote source, QuoteCSV.py that gets quotes from Yahoo Finance and imports them into MS Money. QuoteCSV.py is a very simple python script. Python is a high level computer script-like language that is interpreted by a python interpreter.*

Because the Yahoo Finance api used does not return column headers to identify the fields in the .csv file, the example also includes an accompanying example schema file, QuoteCSVSchema.csv.

Copy these files to your python folder, and add an external method as follows:

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• Windows does not include a python interpreter, but you can download and install one for free. Python comes in multiple versions, and the latest version has been greatly improved, but does not work with older python scripts. The safest bet is to install version 2.7.3, which you can get at Python.org. Because you frequently use the command interpreter to execute python scripts, it is handy to install python just on your C drive root, say at C:\python27.