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		heresy on April 24, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zed Shaw is Writing A Book Teaching Beginner Pytho... Look forward to seeing where this goes. My girlfriend asked me to teach her Python - she's doing her masters in statistics, so she's coming from an R/SAS background. Apparently Python is useful to know in the investment banking arena, which surprised me.

zedshaw on April 24, 2010 [–]

Yes, the SEC has recently suggested that all banks encode their financial calculations in Python.

But, tell your girlfriend that if she ends up working for a bank I will cry and take my book away from her. :-)

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