Error using pandas_datareader

[nafshar]

I am trying to read stock data using panda's DataReader and getting an error that I am not sure I understand.
The data source : 'yahoo' is found at the following url:

https://pandas-datareader.readthedocs.io...data-yahoo

import pandas_datareader.data as web

bac = web.DataReader('BAC', 'yahoo', start='2019-09-10', end='2019-10-09')

Error:
TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
Input In [13], in <cell line: 6>()
      3 end_date = datetime.datetime(2016, 1, 1)
      4 #Bank of America
      5 #BAC = data.DataReader('BAC', 'yahoo', start='2006-01-01', end='2016-01-01')
----> 6 ge = web.DataReader('BAC', 'yahoo', start='2019-09-10', end='2019-10-09')

File C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\pandas\util\_decorators.py:207, in deprecate_kwarg.<locals>._deprecate_kwarg.<locals>.wrapper(*args, **kwargs)
    205     else:
    206         kwargs[new_arg_name] = new_arg_value
--> 207 return func(*args, **kwargs)

File C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\pandas_datareader\data.py:370, in DataReader(name, data_source, start, end, retry_count, pause, session, api_key)
    367     raise NotImplementedError(msg)
    369 if data_source == "yahoo":
--> 370     return YahooDailyReader(
    371         symbols=name,
    372         start=start,
    373         end=end,
    374         adjust_price=False,
    375         chunksize=25,
    376         retry_count=retry_count,
    377         pause=pause,
    378         session=session,
    379     ).read()
    381 elif data_source == "iex":
    382     return IEXDailyReader(
    383         symbols=name,
    384         start=start,
   (...)
    390         session=session,
    391     ).read()

File C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\pandas_datareader\base.py:253, in _DailyBaseReader.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):

File C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\pandas_datareader\yahoo\daily.py:153, in YahooDailyReader._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

[nafshar]

Apparently this is a "known issue". After replacing the data source form yahoo to stooq. It worked fine.

import pandas_datareader.data as web
start_date = datetime.datetime(2006, 1, 1)
end_date = datetime.datetime(2016, 1, 1)
#Bank of America
bac = data.DataReader('BAC', 'stooq', start_date, end_date)
bac.head()

Output:
Open	High	Low	Close	Volume
Date					
2015-12-31	14.7814	14.8325	14.6233	14.6233	5.417059e+07
2015-12-30	14.9473	14.9807	14.8070	14.8168	4.030734e+07
2015-12-29	14.9897	15.0780	14.9130	15.0131	5.251059e+07
2015-12-28	14.9630	14.9720	14.7539	14.8846	4.803435e+07
2015-12-24	15.0495	15.1035	14.9630	15.0063	3.380344e+07