DISCUSS: move online data reader subpackages to separate project? · Issue #8961 · pandas-dev/pandas (original) (raw)

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Opening an issue to discuss this: should we think about moving the functionality to read online data sources to a separate package?

This was mentioned recently here #8842 (comment) and #8631 (comment)

Some reasons why we would want to move it:

This often needs much more urgent releases than pandas to fix changes in the remote sources. So with separate release cycle, this can speed up propagation of bugfixes to users
More general: to limit the scope of pandas as the core project, and to encourage that some people take ownership of this subproject (which is easier as a separate project?), publicize it separately, ..

Some questions that come to mind:

What should we move? (everything in remote_data.rst?)
- Everything in io.data? (the DataReader function for Yahoo and Google Finance, FRED and Fama/French, and the Options class
- Also io.wb (certain World Bank data) and io.ga (google analytics interface)?
Should we move it all to one separate project, or to multiple?
Are there outside of pandas already some packages like this? (possibilities to merge with that/collaborate/..)
Who would be interested to take this up? To be a maintainer of such a package?