For obvious reasons, at Resolver Systems we’re big fans of using Python for financial computation. As such, we’re keen to promote the London Financial Python Users Group, which was founded by Didrik Pinte of Enthought.

If you’re in the London area and are interested in coming to the Group’s next meeting, here are the details:

Date/time: Feb 3, 2010 at 7pm
Location: KBC Financial Products at their offices: 111 Old Broad Street, EC2N 1FP (just opposite Tower 42).

All are welcome, but for security reasons you need to register in advance; just drop an email to Didrik Pinte.

The topics planned for this meeting are:

• Improving NumPy performance with the Intel MKL – Didrik Pinte, Enthought
• Python to Excel bridges:
  • “PyXLL, a user friendly Python-Excel bridge” – Tony Roberts
  • Discussion on connecting Python and Excel (xlrd/xlwt, pyinex, win32com, pyxll, …)
• Speeding up Python code using Cython – Didrik Pinte, Enthought

Didrik Pinte of Enthought has started the London Financial Python Users Group; it had its inaugural meeting on November 11, and the next one will be on 14 December at MWB Regent Street, Liberty House 222 Regent Street, London W1B 5TR. The plan is to have a few lightning talks, some free-form chat, and then to decamp to the pub for some even-freer-form chat…

So far, the planned talks are Resolver’s Giles Thomas on Resolver One and Ironclad, and Didrik on Chaco, a 2D plotting toolkit — if you’re interested in giving a talk yourself, get in touch with Didrik.  His details are on the Users Group’s webpage.