IRESS is a market data system developed by IRESS Market Technology Ltd. Their desktop IRESS solution provides real-time and historical data for wide range of equities and derivatives.

The IRESS application exposes a COM automation object model that allows direct access to the data streams that drive the user interface. pyress wraps sections of this COM object model in a pythonic interface.

Installation

The latest release of pyress is always available on PyPI at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyress/.

You can install the latest pyress library release from the command line using pip or easy_install:

pip install pyress
easy_install pyress

If you want to use the latest (potentially unstable) code then grab the master branch from the pyress github repository:

pip install -I https://github.com/brotchie/pyress/zipball/master

Example

The following example retrieves then displays all financials for BHP during 2008:

import pprint
from iress import IressDataClient, DfsSec

idc = IressDataClient()
idc.connect()

financials = idc.execute(DfsSec.constants.dfsDataFinancial, dict(
    Security='BHP',
    Exchange='ASX',
    StartDate='2008-01-01',
    EndDate='2009-01-01',
    ItemList=-1,
    AnnualReport=True,
    QuarterlyReport=True,
    InterimReport=True,
    PreliminaryReport=True,
))
pprint.pprint(financials)

This example is available as a script at https://raw.github.com/brotchie/pyress/master/examples/bhpfinancials.py.