Python-digest # 8. News, interesting projects, articles and interviews [December 20, 2013 - December 27, 2013]

I hasten to congratulate everyone on the upcoming happy new year. The gift I have, however, very small - all the same recent news about Python and nearby technologies. But there are interesting things about search, Android applications, GUI for DB, OAuth, TDD, CMS and other letter combinations.

As a result of the vote in the previous digest with a margin of six votes, I was allowed not to issue on January 3, but we should expect an expanded version on January 10

Many thanks to owlman for the illustration to release. By the way, he also writes about Python but, unfortunately, not very often. Dreams to patch a day to 30 hours instead of 24.
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Articles and Interviews

• Time Series Analysis with Python
  An attempt to describe the process of analyzing time series using the statsmodels module.
• TDD with Django 1.6
  An example of the implementation of a code development approach based on the writing of tests and the subsequent writing of the code that passes these tests. Pictures, code samples, functional and unit tests. Well readable article.
• Introduction to web development with Pyramid part 4
  A continuation of a series of articles this time about dispatching URLs and processing a request, as well as a flowchart for a request in the framework
• Functional programming
  Description of OOP differences, procedural and functional programming, and the main techniques of the latter available in python
• Simple interpreter from scratch in Python # 2
  The second of the planned four-series habstaty series - this time about extracting AST (abstract syntax tree) from the list of tokens
• Who am I? Game for facebook on flask
  A series of walkthrough articles is planned on how to create a simple social game.
• Creating Android applications using Python and SL4A, Part 1. Building a development environment
  
• Overcoming GIL Issues in Cython
  It is about the possibility of running procedures in several threads without locks using the switch with nogil
• Subtleties of using Python: Part 6
  Ways to integrate Python and C / C ++ applications
• Subtleties of using Python: Part 7.
  Features of interaction with C ++. Package distutils, library Boost.Python, Cython project
• Subtleties of using Python: Part 8.
  Features of interaction with C ++. SWIG project and Python reverse integration in C / C ++ applications
• Data output from SQLite to pdf
  Used by the author’s actively developed xtopdf library.
• Peewee - easy, flexible and very fast ORM
  Free interpretation of the introductory tutorial and partial documentation on Peewee
• Scrolling bpython command history
  bpython is a beautiful and functional interface to the standard Python interpreter for * nix.
  Now it is possible to return to the output of commands, which has already gone beyond the upper boundary of the terminal.
• Creating a development server automatically reloading code
  A recipe based on inotify that keeps track of file system code changes and restarts a server.
• Designing a server application to securely store OAuth 2 tokens and other secrets
  
• IT books at a free price
  Including Lutz's masterpiece Python Programming and Django. Developing Python Web Applications from the team of authors Jeffrey Forsier, Paul Bissex and Wesley Chan
• Your database now has its own website!
  Sandman library advertising providing a REST API and a beautiful graphical interface for your databases (the list of supported is impressive and certainly includes the main players of MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle, MS SQL server)
• Creating a full-text search engine using the Bloom filter
  A very interesting article on the use of the pybloom module for search organization, for example, on a static site. The Bloom filter is a probabilistic data structure invented that allows compactly storing the set of elements and verifying the belonging of a given element to the set

Interesting projects, tools, libraries

• pypi.info - Improved search results for PYPI packages
  The list immediately shows the githab stars / followers of the author; sorting is available.
• Gruvi - Network Library
  Uses libuv and implements many useful functions - such as setting up and maintaining SSL connections, abstraction of asynchronous operations in synchronous style, HTTP client and server. Designed to compete at the level of design convenience with projects such as gevent, concurrence, eventlet, asyncio
• snowjob - and let it snow in the terminal
  
• dnspython - automatically add dns records about the appearance of a new application server
  Able to add to BIND information about the new application server in such a way that he will participate in the distribution of the load on the system on the principle of round robin
• EasyAI - artificial intelligence for board games
  A library without additional dependencies that implements the strategy of playing such games as tic-tac-toe, reversi, four in a row
• PyBuilder - analog of Apache Maven on pure python
  

Releases

• Django Debug Toolbar 1.0
  
• Mezzanine 3.0 and Cartridge 0.9
  Remarkable CMS on Django and its subproject for creating online stores have reached new versions. The emphasis is on compatibility with new versions of the components used (Django 1.6, Python 3.3, Bootstrap 3)
• Pylint 1.1 - Christmas Release
  A whole bunch of new checks, fixes and improvements to documentation, bug fixes - in general this is some kind of holiday.