Python-digest # 15. News, interesting projects, articles and interviews [February 18, 2013 - February 23, 2014]
We have not managed to collect a lot of news for today, but they are quite interesting. There will be games, and development for mobile devices, and sound processing, and a great overview of ORM, as well as news with Pewee sweets. In addition, the conference in Kazan is rapidly approaching (it will take place on March 1).
Taking this opportunity, I want to congratulate the defenders of the fatherland on the last holiday of February 23 and all-all on the victory in the overall standings of the Olympiad.
Thank you owlman75 for the illustration and kind words, thanks to which I decided to make a release, despite the fact that I had filled up the promised time and faced personal problems. ')
I ask for help - can someone share or develop UserScript for automatically uploading pictures on habrastorage? He will greatly speed up the publication procedure.
news
PEP463 - expressions that can catch exceptions An interesting sentence to implement an expression that can catch exceptions in the style: lst = [1, 2] value = lst [2] except IndexError: "No value"
Articles and Interviews
Interactive shell on python.org Together with the redesign, you can now run an interactive console with 3.3 on the most important python site
Write music For me personally, quite unexpected in content, a great article on how to work with sound, using binding to the interesting and separately from the Pyhton library of Sonic Field
Correct work with CPython signals In some cases, working with signals in CPython can lead to an infinite wait cycle. The author of the article considers the causes of such situations and makes recommendations for solving the problem.
Running Kivy + SL4A on QPython If in kivy you lack the features of SL4A, then you can use the author's recipe and combine these two great projects with QPython
What tools do superstars use? Short interviews with some active members of the python-community on the subject of a subject
ORM Review Brief information and comparison of the advantages and disadvantages of ORM SQLObject, Storm, Django ORM, peewee, SQLAlchemy
pivideo.org - collection of links to videos from foreign conferences It so happened that in our digest extremely rarely published links to English-language videos. For those who lack this, they can easily use the pyvideo.org website - over 2000 videos from various conferences, meetings of developers and others have already been collected there.
AppScale 1.14.0 Timed to Valentine's Day release of a platform competing with GAE
Conferences, events, developer meetings
Python DevDay in Kazan Conference is scheduled for March 1 Approximate topics of reports: “Why Python?” - prefer Nikolay Telepenin, BARS Group “How Python is Used in Yandex” - q210 Timur Zaripov, Yandex “Literate Programming etc.” - Astynax Alexey Pirogov, BARS Group “We are reviving web applications” - kirovilya Ilya Kirov, BARS Group “Behave Driven Development in Python” - Kirill Borisov, BARS Group ”Python & enterprise: translation difficulties" - Nikolay Telepenin prefer , BARS Group “Introduction to PyPy” - histrio Rinat Sabitov, BARS Group “Localization and internationalization of django applications” - monIToringe Ruslan Yuldashev, GetGoing