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Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 10:59:40 +0200
From: Bastian Ballmann <bastian.ballmann@notch-interactive.com>
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Am 03.04.2012 16:35, schrieb SMac2347@comcast.net:
> Hello, I was just wondering if anyone had experience using Python to
> interact with Bloomberg. Ideally, I'd look to use Python to feed
> Bloomberg's OVML calculator with a list of inputs, and then use an
> additional program to grab the results of the calculator for each
> calculation, and pull them into another document, ideally an excel
> spreadsheet or alternatively a delimited .txt file.
>
> Any thoughts or ideas are very much appreciated. Thanks!

Bloomberg has got SOAP for many (or all?) of its services.

So maybe you could use SOAPpy to communicate with it.
See http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ws-pyth5/

HTH && Greets

Basti

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