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| References | <d61fbee7-4404-4924-8793-4e65c15e81be@googlegroups.com> |
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| Date | 2014-08-12 17:07 -0400 |
| Subject | Re: Python in financial services |
| From | Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Message-ID | <mailman.12900.1407877679.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
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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