.. Python Hacks documentation master file, created by sphinx-quickstart on Sun Dec 19 22:01:31 2010. You can adapt this file completely to your liking, but it should at least contain the root `toctree` directive. .. header:: For comments please contact `Niels Henrik Bruun `_ ######################## Welcome to Python Hacks! ######################## :Date: |today| by `Niels Henrik Bruun `_ The purpose is to develop and gather python based object oriented effective code to work with financial/scientific calculations like risk management, pricing and hedging. Further the purpose to get or produce proper financial documentation for the scripts presented here. I have found that Python is a fantastic tool to develop financial tools. Some of the reasons for this are: * Python is fully object oriented * Python is strongly supported on numerical calculations * Python is easy to learn and have a clear syntax * Python is a worthy alternative to eg. Excel and Matlab doing Scientific calculations * Python can be almost as fast as eg. C or Fortran due to the fact that slow code parts are converted to C or Fortran module and run from Python * `See more arguments for using Python `_ But allthough the financial system Front Arena use Python as a scripting language, there are very few homepages dedicated to financial calculations in Python. As Python is overlooked in the financial community I decided to start this site. This is not just about Python, though. Spreadsheets is also looked upon with regard to scientific/financial calculations and scripting. If you got comments to this site please send me a mail. Regards `Niels Henrik Bruun `_ Contents: ========= .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 2 :numbered: :glob: rstFiles/* Indices and tables ================== * :ref:`genindex` * :ref:`modindex` * :ref:`search`