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5 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Scott Sanderson b766ce6ebd ENH: Add zipline.utils.cache.
Implements a `CachedObject` utility class for wrapping cached results
with an expiration date.
2015-10-01 18:03:53 -04:00
Scott Sanderson 00c413e9d4 ENH: Add zipline.utils.preprocess.
Implements tools for preprocessing the arguments to user-facing
functions.
2015-10-01 18:03:53 -04:00
Scott Sanderson 75138343ba BUG: Use IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL in test_doctests.
Causes doctest to not care about the module of the raised exception.
This matters because Python3 includes the module in the formatted
exception, but Python3 doesn't, so the doctest will always fail on one
or the other without this flag.
2015-10-01 18:03:53 -04:00
Scott Sanderson 58ceb7b7bb DEV: Add zipline.utils.memoize.
- Moved zipline.utils.lazyval.
- Added `remember_last` which is just `lru_cache(1)` with simpler logic.
2015-09-16 01:28:15 -04:00
Scott Sanderson ef4f642e62 ENH: Compute engine architecture for FFC API.
This patch lays the groundwork for a compute engine designed to
facilitate construction of factor-based universe screening and portfolio
allocation.  It contains:

A new module, `zipline.modelling`, containing entities that can be used
to express computations as dependency graphs.  Each node in such a graph
is an instance of the base `Term` class, defined in
`zipline.modelling.term`.  Dependency graphs are executed by instances
of `FFCEngine`, defined in `zipline.modelling.engine`.

A new module, `zipline.data.ffc`, containing loaders and dataset
definitions for inputs to the modelling API.

New `TradingAlgorithm` api methods: `add_factor`, and `add_filter`.
These methods can only be called from `initialize`, and are used to
inform the algorithm that each day it should compute the given terms.
Computed factor results are made available through a new attribute of
the `data` object in `before_trading_start` and `handle_data`.  Computed
filter results control which assets are available in the factor matrix
on each day.
2015-07-29 12:30:46 -04:00