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 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 pyress library from the command line using easy_install

easy_install pyress

or pip

pip install pyress

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 http://code.google.com/p/pyress/source/browse/examples/bhpfinancials.py.