On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 6:45 AM, thanos <than...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Finally just recently SEC announced that they might require regulatory > files to be submitted in Python and not in legal English. > Their rational is that Python is less ambigious and the English and > more clean, readable and structured than XML. (http://www.sec.gov/ > rules/proposed/2010/33-9117.pdf<http://www.sec.gov/%0Arules/proposed/2010/33-9117.pdf> > ). > > I couldn't quite believe that when I read it, but there it is, right on the SEC web site. And not dated April 1st, either.
And for those who don't want to download the link, Python would just be used to define formulas; the idea is that investors could run the code rather than having to implement algorithms from a text description. Any idea why they chose Python? I imagine it is because it is compact and easy to read, but I'd be curious what attracted them. There's a snake oil joke in there somewhere. Nick -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
