Download U.S. Stock Data form Yahoo Finance

def get_data_yahoo(ticker, datestart, dateend):
    datestart = datestart.split('-')
    dateend =  dateend.split('-')

    startyear = datestart[0]
    startmonth = str(int(datestart[1])-1)
    startday = datestart[2]

    endyear = dateend[0]
    endmonth = str(int(dateend[1])-1)
    endday = dateend[2]

    if len(startmonth)==1:
        startmonth = '0' + startmonth
    if len(endmonth)==1:
        endmonth = '0' + endmonth
    
    url = 'http://real-chart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s='+ticker+'&a='+startmonth+'&b='+startday+'&c='+startyear+'&d='+endmonth+'&e='+endday+'&f='+endyear+'&g=d&ignore=.csv'
    try:
        response = urllib2.urlopen(url)
        cr = csv.reader(response)
        stock = []
        for row in cr:
            stock.append(row)

        headers = stock.pop(0)    
        df = pd.DataFrame(stock, columns=headers)
        return df
    except:
        print 'Cannot Download Data for ' + ticker

if __name__ == '__main__':  
    import pandas as pd
    import csv
    import urllib2
    
    ticker = 'AAPL'
    startdate = '2015-01-01'
    enddate = '2015-01-16'
    df = get_data_yahoo(ticker, startdate, enddate)
    print df.head()