Python-digest # 11. News, interesting projects, articles and interviews [January 17, 2013 - January 24, 2014]

We continue to collect the latest news, information about projects, interesting articles about python and related technologies. This time there are a lot of articles in Russian from Maxim Nikitenko ’s blog , which he himself sent via the news addition form on the digest tool.

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For the year there are already thanks inetava
And the renewal for the second year thanks vaal

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Articles and Interviews

• Receptions of the elementary analysis and optimization of productivity
  
• Building Excel Charts with Pandas and XlsxWriter
  
• The introduction of backdoor in apk
  
• Getting started with Kivy
  The first of two articles about the development of the application of the application for children about learning the alphabet for Android tablets
  The second part of
• Simple interpreter from scratch in Python # 4
  
• Analysis of the names of cities in the world to select a strategy game in the city
  
• We organize a mini TV station using VLC and Flask
  
• Utility for renaming photos
  There was a desire to rename photos from a personal photo archive into names like “Year_month_day_hour_minute.jpg” instead of an incomprehensible “IMG09123.jpg”, agree not very informative, my version is very convenient, easy to sort by date (you can view photos in progression by time) before open the photo immediately see what year this photo.
• The game is a memory test
  A simple game is a test of temporary memory, where you need to find newly added circles, with each level they become more and more difficult to find the newly added circle.
• Template "Find and do something"
  From time to time there is a need to find all the files from the current folder and go deeper and do any actions on them. The author offers a code template that can be quickly modified to suit your own needs, as well as an example of using
• Show GeoTag photos on the map
  Extract and display on the map GPS information from exif-photo tags.
• Counting DNS queries from a CAP file using Scapy
  
• 100 people who have made the greatest contribution to the development of the language
  Unsorted because each one is # 1
• Properties
  Not that everything, but a lot of interesting things about the properties of objects in Python
• Computational geometry - from theory to practice
  A large and interesting article on the problem statement and the basics of solving a convex area search for a set of geometric objects (convex hull)
• Python packages
  An abstract from the linux.conf.au 2014 conference about problems in package managers (easy_install, pip) and the current state of affairs with their solution
• Changing the DB data structure in django
  Detailed illustrated story of south for beginners
• Application of the method of dividing in half to optimize the format of data storage
  A good article on the practical application of traditional binary search and halving algorithms in particular to optimize data storage in the ACID project (portable persistent key / value storage - in SQLite style).
• Filtering in the list generator
  Rather detailed article about the expression-generator of the list and its complex application.
• What is super?
  
• Why are there so many Pythons?
  
• Python and Flask are so powerful
  An enthusiastic post about how the author managed to implement a paid book download service in 100 lines of code

Books and documentation

• Introduction to Asynchronous Programming and Twisted
  The source is at github.com/ninaevseenko/async_twisted_en
• Web2py tutorials
  

Interesting projects, tools, libraries

• Fn.py - missing functional programming pieces
  Recently, the author added a module to the library with the implementation of a persistent data structure (data structures preserve changes after running inverse operations on them)
• PyExcelerate - fast xlsx recording
  
• NodeCTRL
  In your network a lot of network equipment, putting the last switch you forgot where the first one is, then we go to you!
  The Flask + SQLAlchemy application is written specifically to catalog online networking equipment.

Releases

• PyCharm 3.1 EAP build # 133.673
  
• Cython 0.20 and the Frosted 1.0.0 Python code verification system
  
• pandas 0.13
  Updated wonderful library for analyzing and converting data. It is also worth paying attention to a separate article describing the innovations of this version.
• Watson-Framework 1.0.0
  Another framework pretending that in it, basically, you need to write code, and not to deal with the framework itself