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Comment by markkoberlein | Hacker News Reader

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

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).

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?

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

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.

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.

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