So, a mass of errors trying to run a zipline-dependant program on 3.5 env

[Evalias123]

After a day and a half rasslin' with getting zipline to work, let me tell you, that was fun, got a whole bunch of these:

Error:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
AssertionError                            Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-1-e7c21329eab2> in <module>()
     56  handle_data=handle_data,
     57  capital_base=10000,
---> 58  data_frequency = 'daily', bundle='quandl'
     59 )

C:\Users\M S\anaconda3\envs\env_zipline\lib\site-packages\zipline\utils\run_algo.py in run_algorithm(start, end, initialize, capital_base, handle_data, before_trading_start, analyze, data_frequency, bundle, bundle_timestamp, trading_calendar, metrics_set, benchmark_returns, default_extension, extensions, strict_extensions, environ, blotter)
    407         environ=environ,
    408         blotter=blotter,
--> 409         benchmark_spec=benchmark_spec,
    410     )
    411 

C:\Users\M S\anaconda3\envs\env_zipline\lib\site-packages\zipline\utils\run_algo.py in _run(handle_data, initialize, before_trading_start, analyze, algofile, algotext, defines, data_frequency, capital_base, bundle, bundle_timestamp, start, end, output, trading_calendar, print_algo, metrics_set, local_namespace, environ, blotter, benchmark_spec)
    201                 trading_calendar=trading_calendar,
    202                 capital_base=capital_base,
--> 203                 data_frequency=data_frequency,
    204             ),
    205             metrics_set=metrics_set,

C:\Users\M S\anaconda3\envs\env_zipline\lib\site-packages\zipline\finance\trading.py in __init__(self, start_session, end_session, trading_calendar, capital_base, emission_rate, data_frequency, arena)
     36                  arena='backtest'):
     37 
---> 38         assert type(start_session) == pd.Timestamp
     39         assert type(end_session) == pd.Timestamp
     40 

AssertionError: 

WTF does any of that even mean? Am I supposed to go back and learn from start to scratch how to code python from indexes arrays and onwards to be able to run a simple freaking program, for 3-6 months? I posted something earlier re: Installing modules, I'm not giving up yet but this is the first program to use zipline and it's sitting there laughing at me. Running this in my 3.5 env, it was "suggested" to have nb_conda installed However there is currently no version that I can see that is compatible with 3.5, and there's no version of zipline that seems to work with anything besides this little 3.5 env I set up, 3.6 was supposed to work but no, it didn't.

I'd post the code that generated it but it wasn't written by me, I figure it would be considered proprietary but if no one can tell me what's going on here I may have to, not that the program is a marvelous money-making machine it's a simple dang moving average and chart. Let me know anything you guys can think of.

[buran]

Am I supposed to go back and learn from start

If "that" doesn't speak enough to you, then yes, you may need to go back and learn at least about how to read the traceback and probably more. It complains about the type of start_session (and I guess there will be same one with end_session). We don't see your code, but quick search and check:

https://github.com/quantopian/zipline/issues/2752
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6151...on-zipline

[Evalias123]

So like you linked this particular code section/snippet was posted previously line-by-line from Klenow's Trading Evolved and it was apparently a date and time issue causing these Assertion errors. Many Thanks again once I get to actually start editing code for real I'll try to give back to the community. A bit aways at this point though. Link #2 contained the code solution .. been doing this for 2 weeks finally want to be able to get to the point of applying multiple mathematical tests and not just a moving average, have at least a mental framework and plan but it'll take some time to go manual, for me at least.


Wanted to mention this in case anyone had the "pleasure" of trying to install zipline, this is the set of instructions that mostly worked:

https://blog.quantinsti.com/zipline-libr...n-windows/