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ProfitPy is a set of libraries and tools for the development, testing, and execution of automated stock trading systems Specifically, ProfitPy is a collection of Python packages, modules, and scripts that work together to help you implement an automated stock trading program (or programs). The package features: A library with classes for accounts, orders, tickers, and more A GUI program for executing and plotting trades in real-time A GUI tool to collect ticker data for off-line use A CLI tool to back-test trading strategies Dozens of technical indicators and plotting widgets to display them An X11 keystroke tool for automating the TWS application

Last week we looked at the itertools module and how its iterator based functions can be faster than doing things from scratch. One of the examples showed a function using itertools.takewhile to be much faster than one using itertools.groupby. Some feedback we got, asked, what then is the point of groupby if it's just a slower version of other functionality?

In short: run your existing Python software much faster, with no change in your source. Think of Psyco as a kind of just-in-time (JIT) compiler, a little bit like what exists for other languages, that emit machine code on the fly instead of interpreting your Python program step by step. The difference with the traditional approach to JIT compilers is that Psyco writes several version of the same blocks (a block is a bit of a function), which are optimized by being specialized to some kinds of variables (a "kind" can mean a type, but it is more general). The result is that your unmodified Python programs run faster. Benefits 2x to 100x speed-ups, typically 4x, with an unmodified Python interpreter and unmodified source code, just a dynamically loadable C extension module. Drawbacks Psyco currently uses a lot of memory. It only runs on Intel 386-compatible processors (under any OS) right now. There are some subtle semantic differences (i.e. bugs) with the way Python works; they should not be apparent in most programs.

The module comes with a demo application which is written in wxWidgets. The demo emulates any terminal program inside a text box. The following are the screenshots of emulating bash, emacs and vi using TermEmulator and the demo. successfully emulated(ran in a text box) bash, emacs, vi and some other terminal programs.

Provides callback for updating terminal screen