Off topic but, possibly of interest. At first I thought requiring Python was
a typo in a news report, but the SEC site has this PDF:
http://www.sec.gov/rules/proposed/2010/33-9117.pdf

"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, a commonly
used open source interpretive programming language."

"Comments should be received on or before August 2, 2010" See PDF for how to
submit comments.

XML seems like an obvious choice, but Python?

1. What tool and/or format should the SEC require for expressing
"contractual cash flow provisions" for "prospectuses for public offerings of
asset-backed securities and ongoing Exchange Act reports?"

2. What should be the balance between data and code?

Jim Callahan
Orlando, FL

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