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This could open up a very lucrative market for Python experts.

• thorax 16y ago
  The cynic in me thinks it will actually push the state of the art of obfuscating Python (which isn't widely experimented with as far as I know).
  • arebop 16y ago
    I was under the impression that Wall Street typically develops and hosts in-house, regarding both algorithms and operations as competitive advantages. Is that incorrect, or is there some other reason to obfuscate?
    • thorax 16y ago
      The SEC proposal in question is talking about making these available (publicly if I read this correctly) when defining new securities: > We also are proposing to require that, with some exceptions, prospectuses for public offerings of asset-backed securities and ongoing Exchange Act reports contain specified asset-level information about each of the assets in the pool. The asset-level information would be provided according to proposed standards and in a tagged data format using eXtensible Markup Language (XML). In addition, we are proposing to require, along with the prospectus filing, the filing of a computer program of the contractual cash flow provisions expressed as downloadable source code in Python... http://www.sec.gov/rules/proposed/2010/33-9117.pdf http://www.sec.gov/rules/proposed/2010/33-9117.pdf
  • omouse 16y ago
    Decorators, generators and all the other syntactic sugar that's been added over the years is already too much experimentation with obfuscation for my liking.
• mkramlich 16y ago
  Heck, just pushing up the demand for Python devs is a good thing. Rising tide lifts all boats. Probably indirectly raise the boats of non-Python devs as well.