Attempting to make a digest of news from the world of Python

Constantly I read on Habré Digest news about php and I find myself thinking that I would really like to read something similar about python on an ongoing basis. It is clear that alone this is a very heavy business, but I want to try - and maybe readers will want to help. For easy creation of digests, I wrote a small application on Dajngo and laid out its code on github - there is it on the web, but for reference it’s better to bang on the PM. There are two more past issues and a tape as news is added, and I’m going to give my rights to admin panel, if necessary.

The news is mainly from PythonWeekly and in English since the activity of the Russian-speaking community since about 2011 is subjectively small. Although, it’s quite possible that I’m just looking for bad sources and you can tell me where to find good python materials in Russian. Also, for the selection of materials, I use information about the trends of github, pypi and pep8.ru - an excellent resource, but for some reason it has stopped its development.

Under the cut the actual digest. I'm really looking forward to comments on how to improve the design, composition, themes, grouping news. Give python to the masses.

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Articles and Interviews

• Work with urllib2 via TOR
  A brief example of how to create a connection via an anonymous TOR network in urllib2
• psiTurk - a platform for experiments in the field of social engineering
  Everything is well documented, the project uses Amazon Mechanical Turk as a supplier of performers.
• Long article on the use of R for the analysis of human-written texts
  Chewed up the processing and analysis of a large number of e-mails to determine their subject matter.
• Headache Decorators
  A rather lengthy and detailed explanation of how decorators are traditionally created, and how one can get rid of the boilerplate code by using one of the features of the author’s library on pypi
• Aggregation and graphical presentation of data with time
  An example of processing and graphical analysis of data collected over time. A whole set of popular data analysis modules are used - numpy, pandas, matplotlib, ggplot and others. Many beautiful graphs and good techniques for common tasks.
• Porting a traditional django application to heroku
  Detailed step-by-step instructions for porting a django / mysql application to cloud hosting with storing static in Amazon S3
• Do not catch all exceptions!
  Another brief article on the fact that it is necessary to clearly indicate which exceptions are caught in the try / catch block and what the consequences may be the opposite.
• Comparing GC Python and Ruby
  Rich in illustrations and concrete examples of code execution, an article comparing Python and Ruby garbage collection implementations.
• The implementation of traceroute on scapy in 15 lines of code
  
• Writing the FUSE file subsystem
  An example of using fuse-python to implement your own file system. In fact, very interesting and nothing complicated - the base code is no more than 135 lines with all spaces and passthrough methods.
• Real-time Web applications and how suitable Django is for them
  
• 90% Python in 90 minutes
  The author offers a presentation of 119 slides, which, in his opinion, upon careful reading, covers 90% of the information about the Python programming language. The truth will have to google a lot and read on other resources, but it is worth it.
• RinohType - another attempt to make TeX from xml
  This time implementation is in python.

Interesting projects, tools, libraries

• tmuxp
  The tmux configuration and workspace management system (a multiplexing utility that provides the user with access to several terminals within one screen)
• cyflann
  Non-blocking binding to Cython library FLANN (quick search of neighbors in multidimensional structures)
• dict_digger
  An interesting library for getting items into deeply nested dictionaries and lists
• superzipper
  An original tool for packing python code with all pyre-python dependencies into an executable zip file to get a single-file application. So far, performance has been tested only in Linux.

Releases

• Django 1.6
  API for working with transactions, additional syntactic sugar in ORM, persistent database connections and many more interesting things
• django-bento 1.0.0
  A tool for marking in templates and editing in the django admin areas of the site.
• dominate 2.0.0
  Developed and long-developed library for working with HTML using the DOM API
• django-carton 1.0.0
  Lightweight library for the implementation of the basket of goods / services

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