ANN: pandas-datareader v0.2.1 released

[David Stephens]

I'm happy to announce v0.2.1 of pandas-datareader.

This is a minor release from v0.2.0 and includes new features and bug fixes.

*What is it:*

*pandas-datareader* is a Python package that provides remote data access to
financial data.

*pandas-datareader* replaces pandas.io.data and pandas.io.wb in pandas
versions v0.17.0+.

*How to get it:*
Install via pip
pip install pandas-datareader

*How to use it:*

from pandas.io import data, wb # becomes

from pandas_datareader import data, wb

More information available in the documentation here
<https://pandas-datareader.readthedocs.org/en/latest/>.

*Release highlights include:*
*New features*

   - DataReader now supports Eurostat data sources, see here
   <https://pandas-datareader.readthedocs.org/en/latest/remote_data.html#remote-data-eurostat>
   (GH101 <https://github.com/pydata/pandas-datareader/issues/101>).
   - Options downloading is approximately 4x faster as a result of a
   rewrite of the parsing function.
   - DataReader and Options now support caching, see here
   <https://pandas-datareader.readthedocs.org/en/latest/cache.html#cache> (
   GH110 <https://github.com/pydata/pandas-datareader/issues/110>),(GH116
   <https://github.com/pydata/pandas-datareader/issues/116>),(GH121
   <https://github.com/pydata/pandas-datareader/issues/121>), (GH122
   <https://github.com/pydata/pandas-datareader/issues/122>)

*Backwards incompatible API changes*

   - Options columns PctChg and IV (Implied Volatility) are now type float
   rather than string.

*Issues:*

Please report any issues on our issue tracker
<https://github.com/pydata/pandas-datareader/issues>.
Thanks to all who made this release happen.

Dave

*Thanks to all of the contributors:*

   - bashtage
   - davidastephens
   - femtotrader
   - hayd
   - jreback
   - sinhrks