Python-digest # 16. News, interesting projects, articles and interviews [February 23, 2013 - March 2, 2014]

We continue to find and translate announcements of the most interesting and useful news from the world of python, nearby technologies and the community. Today about games, GUI, free hosting, online IDE, parallel execution of code, and much more interesting.

I don’t get tired of thanking owlman75 for the illustrations for the issues, as well as for all-all-all who, even if rarely, send news for publication through a specially trained interface .


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news

• Python projects in GSoC 2014
  The Python Software Foundation has published a list of projects that will participate in Google’s annual student program. Among them are such interesting projects as Mercurial, Scrapy, Kivy, scikit-image and many projects of scientific direction.

Articles and Interviews

• Solve the problem of potential errors when retrieving data via HTTP
  The author offers a practical solution for urlib2 using URL Handlers
• Notifications of endings of fabric tasks, with decorators and detailed information
  
• Developing a cross-platform application on Qt, PyQt and PySide - part 5
  An article that completes an interesting cycle about developing an application with a GUI, which we followed in every issue of the digest.
• Unyielding
  Good article about problems and solutions of parallel code execution.
• Django forms field - nested table
  The author proposes an article about the implementation of a django form field of the “nested table” type, with data storage in XML
• Remote code execution in socket.recvfrom_into ()
  Description of an interesting vulnerability to which your projects may also be exposed
• Browse libraries for parsing markdown
  
• Organizing code in django applications or thick models is great.
  Translation of an interesting and potentially holistic article that was already in one of our previous issues.
• Read, quickly!
  Implementation on tkinter and pygame programs for accelerated text reading. Based on an article on Habré
  
• Its panel in pyramid_debugtoolbar
  In pyramid_debugtoolbar it is possible to create additional panels for your needs. The author offers a small example of how to do this using the example of sadisplay.
• Simple horizontal scaling of IPython Notebook in a server cluster
  
• Implementing instagram filters
  Using multiple libraries to filter images
• RESTful web services - examples on Django and Flask
  The author compares the advantages and disadvantages of the two frameworks.
• Patch bytecode function
  An example of the practical use of the dis module
• Competitive Programming - An Introduction to Streams
  For beginners, but for some reason, not words about GIL and blocking - I recommend reading with caution
• Authentication issues in Flask
  The author reasonably complains about the flaw in Flask of a convenient and popular authorization system.
• Experience using caniusepython3
  In the last issue, we wrote about an interesting library to check the compatibility of your projects with python3 - and here came the detailed article about it
• 5 platforms with a free django application hosting plan
  Actually four, but Gondor is very good) The lack of quantity is compensated by user comments - they also offer interesting options
• 5 online IDEs worth paying attention to
  

Interesting projects, tools, libraries

• Super Mario Bros Level 1
  The first level is Super Mario Bros, created using Python and Pygame.
• django-modelcluster - related objects without writing to the database
  An interesting project that adds to Django the ability to keep in mind, without flushing to the database, related ORM objects
• webargs - parse the parameters entered by the user
  Library simplifies parsing the arguments passed in the request (GET, JSON, POST, COOKIE)

Releases

• Nikola 6.4.0
  NIkola is a generator of static sites and blogs. The main feature of the release is the ability to generate a site in a subdirectory such as example.com/blog