I've had the misfortune to need to use Python recently after decades of VBs then C#/SQL. I can see why it's popular for new starters but I just find it's a bit slow executing, although the maths libraries blaze through. It also seems to be unstable with it relying on so many external libs. Nothing that can't be fixed if that's your thing but it's not for me and VS doesn't support it as well as it supports C# either. I've kept all my trading comms and db access in C# and use a named pipe to python just for the model inference, best of both worlds imo.
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ShaunWhite
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Hi Shaun,
Yes those external libraries!!!! .
You seem to have a good setup there and that's a good idea to pipe through to Python .
One good thing I used Python for was webscraping .It has a few quite stable dedicated libraries for scraping that were quite useful . I have never felt happy with it's database stuff though.
Have you tried using AI to write some code ? .The initial idea that all programmers would have to join the dole queue seemed to have diminished a bit .
A while back I fed a load of greyhound stuff into Perplexity AI ,basically a meetings full of cards for the dogs at Monmore . The last 5 formlines were included .It managed 5 wins out if the 12 races (two odds on) but it also found a 5/1 and 7/1 .Next day I tried the same at Romford..12 races two wins 3/1 and 7/2..loads of 2nds though .
Kinders
Tico
Yes those external libraries!!!! .
You seem to have a good setup there and that's a good idea to pipe through to Python .
One good thing I used Python for was webscraping .It has a few quite stable dedicated libraries for scraping that were quite useful . I have never felt happy with it's database stuff though.
Have you tried using AI to write some code ? .The initial idea that all programmers would have to join the dole queue seemed to have diminished a bit .
A while back I fed a load of greyhound stuff into Perplexity AI ,basically a meetings full of cards for the dogs at Monmore . The last 5 formlines were included .It managed 5 wins out if the 12 races (two odds on) but it also found a 5/1 and 7/1 .Next day I tried the same at Romford..12 races two wins 3/1 and 7/2..loads of 2nds though .
Kinders
Tico