On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 3:33 AM, Rustom Mody <rustompm...@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. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
