The SEC and the Python « Prof. Jayanth R. Varma’s Financial Markets Blog - http://jrvarma.wordpress.com/2010...
"We are proposing to require that most ABS issuers file a computer program that gives effect to the flow of funds, or “waterfall,” provisions of the transaction. We are proposing that the computer program be filed on EDGAR in the form of downloadable source code in Python. … (page 205)" - Tracy
So will the source code that runs the new world economy be written in Python ? Could be worse, but I'd worry about the precision of floating point numbers if these snippets were actually used with CPython ... - Andrew Perry