Pandas-datareader: Support new TSP funds in 2020

Created on 23 Dec 2019 · 5Comments · Source: pydata/pandas-datareader

Now that it is almost 2020, is work currently being planned to add support for the anticipated new TSP funds? The 2020 fund will be retired and there will be a few new funds added (note they are now 5-year increments)

Reference here for more information: https://www.myfederalretirement.com/5-year-l-fund/

Just trying to put this on the radar so that work is ready as soon as those funds are live and trackable, which I presume to be soon in 2020. If there is no work planned by anyone in particular I can likely take on that task. Doesn't look like it will be difficult at all, just depends on if the tsp.gov API changes. Will probably have to be reactionary to those changes first.

@e2thenegpii you are really the only person on the history log that added any real code. Was this on your radar at all? Committed in 2016 and no functional changes since then... Assuming the code help up that whole time, nice job!

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Edit: Use committed solution brought in as part of #808

Thanks @e2thenegpii!

walsha2 on 13 Jul 2020

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@walsha2 No, this is the first I've heard of this. I left federal employment years ago and I haven't had any savings with the TSP for some time.

I don't know that there's a lot to do until the funds are implemented. The TSP adapter posts to a URL and gets back a csv document. There's not much to do until https://www.tsp.gov/InvestmentFunds/FundPerformance/index.html is updated with the new funds.

I'm glad to hear someone is actually interested in some code I wrote. I'd be happy to take a look at updating it after tsp.gov has updated their webpage. If we're lucky it will be a one line change to add the new values to https://github.com/pydata/pandas-datareader/blame/master/pandas_datareader/tsp.py#L32.

If you're interested ping me again when TSP site has been updated with the new L-5 year funds.