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Re: Python in financial services

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Date Tue, 12 Aug 2014 17:07:51 -0400
Subject Re: Python in financial services
From Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com>
To Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 3:33 AM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ive been asked to formulate a python course for financial services folk.
>
> If I actually knew about the subject, I'd have fatter pockets!
> Anyway heres some thoughts. What I am missing out?
>
> [Apart from basic python -- contents typically needs tailoring to the audience] the following:
>
> - Libraries -- Decimal?
> - scripts -- philosophy and infrastructure eg argparse, os.path
> - Pandas
> - Numpy Scipy (which? how much?)
> - ipython + matplotlib + ??
> - Database interfacing
> - Excel interfacing (couple of libraries.. which?)
> - C(C++?) interfacing paradigms -- ranging from ctypes, cython to classic lo-level

I'm not 100% sure what you're looking for. I work for a hedge fund and
we make extensive use of python. Everything from soup to nuts: ETL,
web scraping, database access (sybase, MySQL, and Oracle), log file
archiving and reaping, wrappers for backups, startup and shutdown
scripts for our C++ servers, GIUs (with wxpython), socket based
communication with C++ servers, just about every problem that comes
up.

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Python in financial services Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-08-12 00:33 -0700
  Re: Python in financial services Johann Hibschman <jhibschman@gmail.com> - 2014-08-12 11:35 -0400
    Re: Python in financial services Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-08-12 10:44 -0700
  Re: Python in financial services Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-08-12 15:50 +0000
    Re: Python in financial services Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-08-12 10:48 -0700
      Re: Python in financial services Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-08-12 18:54 +0000
        Re: Python in financial services Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-08-12 12:05 -0700
  Re: Python in financial services Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-08-12 17:07 -0400
  Re: Python in financial services wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-08-12 23:43 -0700
    Re: Python in financial services Laurent Pointal <laurent.pointal@laposte.net> - 2014-08-19 18:35 +0200
      Re: Python in financial services Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-08-19 17:59 -0400
      Re: Python in financial services Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-08-20 00:00 +0100

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