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IOError after 3 tries Yahoo! did not return a 200 for url

Hi! I'm new to Python, therefore apologies if my question is very basic...I'm trying to import very simple stock data from yahoo (or google) but seem to run into the following error message:

IOError: after 3 tries, Yahoo! did not return a 200 for url
'http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=F&a=0&b=1&c=2016&d=0&e=27&f=2016&g=d&ignore=.csv'

interesting enough, if I copy/past the http:// link into a browser it lets me open the csv file in excel without issues.

Here's the simple code I'm using:

[import pandas as pd
import pandas.io.data as web
import datetime
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

start = datetime.datetime(2016, 1, 1)
end = datetime.datetime(2016, 1, 27)

f=web.DataReader("F", 'yahoo', start, end)

print(f)]

Some forums suggest that the yahoo link needed to be adjusted in the pandas io package (to finance.yahoo) but that seemed to have been fixed already in the data file.

Your help is greatly appreciated!