# Help wanted. Type error or maybe wrong path?

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**Created:** [December 29, 2022, 12:35pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/help-wanted-type-error-or-maybe-wrong-path/17392 "2022-12-29T12:35:21Z")\
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Hi all. Im kinda new to data science but i want to learn by doing. I found a tutorial video on YT to do stock analysis with jupyter notebook. But I get stock when trying to get data. I use anaconda. And i downloaded the pandas packet with the “pip install pandas-datareader” in the prompt.

Am i working in the wrong directory? I have multiple harddrives in my pc and can see it paths to both my G (where I installed anaconda) and C drive (for some reason unknown to me.)

I can also see it gives me a “type error” and that makes me think i might have to convert a index to a int or something.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

```auto
import pandas_datareader.data as pdr

import datetime

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

import sys

start_date = datetime.datetime(2020,1,1)

end_date = datetime.datetime(2020,12,31)

google = pdr.DataReader("GOOGL", data_source="yahoo", start=start_date, end=end_date)

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TypeError Traceback (most recent call last)
~\AppData\Local\Temp\ipykernel_13168\1669214798.py in <module>
----> 1 google = pdr.DataReader("GOOGL", data_source="yahoo", start=start_date, end=end_date)

G:\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pandas\util\_decorators.py in wrapper(*args, **kwargs)
    205 else:
    206 kwargs[new_arg_name] = new_arg_value
--> 207 return func(*args, **kwargs)
    208 
    209 return cast(F, wrapper)

G:\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pandas_datareader\data.py in DataReader(name, data_source, start, end, retry_count, pause, session, api_key)
    368 
    369 if data_source == "yahoo":
--> 370 return YahooDailyReader(
    371 symbols=name,
    372 start=start,

G:\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pandas_datareader\base.py in read(self)
    251 # If a single symbol, (e.g., 'GOOG')
    252 if isinstance(self.symbols, (string_types, int)):
--> 253 df = self._read_one_data(self.url, params=self._get_params(self.symbols))
    254 # Or multiple symbols, (e.g., ['GOOG', 'AAPL', 'MSFT'])
    255 elif isinstance(self.symbols, DataFrame):

G:\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pandas_datareader\yahoo\daily.py in _read_one_data(self, url, params)
    151 try:
    152 j = json.loads(re.search(ptrn, resp.text, re.DOTALL).group(1))
--> 153 data = j["context"]["dispatcher"]["stores"]["HistoricalPriceStore"]
    154 except KeyError:
    155 msg = "No data fetched for symbol {} using {}"

TypeError: string indices must be integers

print(sys.path)

['C:\\Users\\MyDudé\\Documents\\Jupyter test 1', 'G:\\anaconda3\\python39.zip', 'G:\\anaconda3\\DLLs', 'G:\\anaconda3\\lib', 'G:\\anaconda3', '', 'G:\\anaconda3\\lib\\site-packages', 'G:\\anaconda3\\lib\\site-packages\\win32', 'G:\\anaconda3\\lib\\site-packages\\win32\\lib', 'G:\\anaconda3\\lib\\site-packages\\Pythonwin', 'G:\\anaconda3\\lib\\site-packages\\IPython\\extensions', 'C:\\Users\\MyDudé\\.ipython']

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Note that parameter is called `symbols`, not `symbol`: you likely just need to provide `["GOOG"]` instead of `"GOOG"`.