In the advanced build settings, Language version was also upgraded from C# 5.0 to C# 6.0. The minimum Visual Studio version required will now be VS2015.
This update implemented implicit conversion.
From now on, python algorithms will be able to use string object instead of Symbol object when a method overload requires Symbol.
Calling Impromptu.ActLike<IAlgorithm> to make the python object acts like a IAlgorithm caused multiple AlgorithmPythonWrapper objects running in parallel to hold the same python object. That call was removed and instead we access the python object directly.
- Removes AlgorithmPythonUtil.py and add its code directly in AlgorithmPythonWrapper.cs
- Clean up: removes all references to IronPython and ImpromptuInterface
This new pythonnet package makes available the latest version from pythonnet master branch and includes modifications to enable charting in Lean for python.
The dockerfile to create images for the cloud is updated to reflect the package update and adds keras and tensorflow
sed -i -e 's/UCS2/UCS4/' Common/QuantConnect.csproj
sed -i -e 's/UCS2/UCS4/' Algorithm/QuantConnect.Algorithm.csproj
sed -i -e 's/UCS2/UCS4/' Algorithm.CSharp/QuantConnect.Algorithm.CSharp.csproj
sed -i -e 's/UCS2/UCS4/' AlgorithmFactory/QuantConnect.AlgorithmFactory.csproj
The latest version included "targets" that enables the inclusion of Python.Runtime.dll.config into the output directory automatically from the nuget package.
Time sync:
* Data feeds are required to time sync in UTC time
* TimeSlice.Time is now in UTC
IAlgorithm
* Time is now exclusively the algorithm's local time zone
* Added UtcTime
* SetDateTime( DateTime ) accepts a UTC time and is internally converted
SubscriptionDataConfig
* Adds market and time zone as required ctor parameters
SecurityExchange
* Now passes most calls directly through to SecurityExchangeHours class
SecurityExchangeHours
* Holds market hours for each day of week (LocalMarketHours)
* Talks in terms of local times in the SecurityExchangeHours.TimeZone time zone
Data/market-hours/
* New data folder to hold market hour information
* Includes market-hours-database.csv to hold market hours per market/symbol/security (see doc in file)
* Includes holidays-usa.csv to hold holidays for 'usa' market
+ The holiday files follow the pattern 'holidays-*.csv' where * is the market
TimeKeeper
* Receives updates in UTC time
* Passes that to LocalTimeKeeper's who lazily evaluate the time in their respective time zones
* Eventually this can grow to be the sole source of time in the algorithm's scope
MISC:
* Fixes exception thrown when exiting LiveTradingDataFeed
* Fixes exception thrown when exiting FileSystemDataFeed
* Fixes exception thrown when exiting StatusPing
* Simplify FillForwardEnumerator logic with GetNextMarketOpen
* Adds many time zones, see TimeZones.cs
Stefano Raggi