In [2]: import price_utils

In [3]: price_utils.populate_db("data/SPshortlist.csv", "1985-1-1", "2011-8-23", "data/stocks.db")
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GOOG CPWR BA BXP AAPL CTX AMGN CMA AMAT CCE GNW BSX BBBY BMY CTSH GT GS GR CL GILD ABI BF.B CSC BNI T BBY ADM GENZ KO MMM BRCM APC CMCSA Saved 165772 records for 30 out of 33 symbols

In [4]: price_utils.populate_db(symbols=["^GSPC"], startdate="1985-01-01", enddate="2011-08-23", dbfilename="data/stocks.db")
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^GSPC Saved 6720 records for 1 out of 1 symbols