google protocols....

[Glenn H Tarbox, PhD]

ok, even though I'm known for being extremely methodical and a linear
thinker and all...

I came across this:

http://code.google.com/apis/protocolbuffers/docs/pythontutorial.html

which appears to be part of Google's larger plan for dealing with
distributed systems with the outside world...

but, there are pages about talking to Java and C++... and apparently
strategies for dealing with the protocols...

hmmm....

ever heard of these google guys?

-glenn

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[Chris Swierczewski]

Haven't heard of the distributed computing stuff from Google, but I
did investigate their data APIs---in particular, their Finance Data
APIs. It's all XML-based.

I was thinking about tinkering with it and getting it to pull some
historical data, solving the Stock.historical() issue that William
brought up.

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On Jul 7, 2008, at 4:55 PM, "Glenn H Tarbox, PhD" <gl...@tarbox.org>
wrote:

[Glenn H Tarbox, PhD]

On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 17:22 -0700, Chris Swierczewski wrote:
> Haven't heard of the distributed computing stuff from Google, but I
> did investigate their data APIs---in particular, their Finance Data
> APIs. It's all XML-based.

apparently, this stuff was announced today. I have a friend "on the
inside"... this is a big deal apparently....

http://code.google.com/apis/protocolbuffers/docs/overview.html

-glenn