[EM] New Python library implementing voting methods

[Andrew Myers]

Python is a bit nicer than Perl, but if you implement your voting method 
in Perl, you can plug it into CIVS. Then people can and will start using 
it for real polls.

For the software see: 
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/w8/~andru/civs/changelog.html

Cheers,

-- Andrew

On 7/22/64 2:59 PM, Juho Laatu wrote:
> There sure are many programmers on this list as you can guess also from the latest mails. Many of them have lots of voting related software. I don't know what languages people use, but Python certainly is a good general purpose tool. So maybe there is some interest in open libraries in this area.
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> On this list there have been huge number of new proposed methods. Often it would make sense to have also running versions of them. Such programs would serve also as (exact) operational definitions of the methods. Let's see what people think about the ability to exchange also code in addition to text.
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> On 18.7.2011, at 1.58, Duncan McGreggor wrote:
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>> Hey folks,
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>> Not sure if there are programmers on the list (I'm new to it as of
>> last week), but I thought I'd share just in case.
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>> I've pushed out an early release of a pure-Python voting methodologies
>> library. Here's the announcement:
>>   https://launchpad.net/ballotbox/+announcements
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>> As the announcement states, it's only a partial set. The blurb also
>> has links to PyPI, docs, download, and bug reporting.
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>> My interest in this started as a result of experimenting with
>> self-organizing networked objects, and the need to elect a peer as a
>> proxy in unreliable/hostile environments. Having dived into election
>> methods, though, I've found it immensely fascinating... my efforts on
>> this library have become a labor of fun and love :-)
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>> Bug reports deeply welcome, by the way!
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>> Thanks,
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>> d
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