Re: Python Developer - HFT Trading firm - Chicago, IL

2010-08-21 Thread Scott MacDonald
Possibly relevant: http://www.nanex.net/FlashCrash/FlashCrashAnalysis_NBBO.html On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message > , > Raymond > Hettinger wrote: > > > On Aug 21, 2:30 am, Lawrence D'Oliveiro > > > wrote: > > > >> Wasn’t HFT an exacerbating factor in jus

Re: import urllib2 fails with Python 2.6.1 on Vista

2009-01-19 Thread Scott MacDonald
I think I set it a long time ago to get the python VTK bindings working... On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:58 AM, Gabriel Genellina wrote: > En Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:08:07 -0200, Scott MacDonald < > scott.p.macdon...@gmail.com> escribió: > > Ah yes, with your help I seem to have sol

Re: import urllib2 fails with Python 2.6.1 on Vista

2009-01-18 Thread Scott MacDonald
Ah yes, with your help I seem to have solved my own problem. I had PYTHONPATH defined to point to the 2.5 directory. Thanks! Scott On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Scott MacDonald < scott.p.macdon...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, I see your point. Not sure how that would happen. It is

Re: import urllib2 fails with Python 2.6.1 on Vista

2009-01-18 Thread Scott MacDonald
something like that? Thanks, Scott On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 12:44 AM, Gabriel Genellina wrote: > En Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:13:00 -0200, Scott MacDonald > escribió: > > I googled a bit this morning search for an answer to this problem but have >> come up empty so far. Can anyone

import urllib2 fails with Python 2.6.1 on Vista

2009-01-17 Thread Scott MacDonald
I googled a bit this morning search for an answer to this problem but have come up empty so far. Can anyone help? Python 2.6.1 (r261:67517, Dec 4 2008, 16:51:00) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import urllib2 Traceba

Re: Python Dictionary Algorithm Question

2008-12-16 Thread Scott MacDonald
You might be interested in the "Beautiful Code" book: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510046/ It has a chapter on Python's dict implementation that is pretty good. On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Brigette Hodson wrote: > Hello! I am in a beginning algorithms class this semester and I am work

Re: Programming exercises/challenges

2008-11-18 Thread Scott MacDonald
What size of a project are you looking to work on? I enjoy learning in a similar way as you it seems. Recently I have been interested in data visualization problems. Maybe trying to replicate something from a website like: http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/ would interest you? Scott On Tue, N