Python-digest # 23. News, interesting projects, articles and interviews [April 13, 2014 - April 20, 2014]

Another selection of news, articles and interesting projects from the world of python and nearby technologies arrived. The main news, perhaps, can be called just a gorgeous selection of videos from the conference PyCon 2014, which itself is capable of captivating for many hours. But other materials are quite decent. Do you want python 2.8?

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news

• Approved by PEP466 about backporting to 2.7.7 of the 3.x part of the network code related to security issues
  
• PSF opens doors
  A member of the Python Software Foundation can now become a standard registration procedure. Previously, it was possible to get there only by invitation.

Articles and Interviews

• 48 themes for IPython Notebook
  
• We write classic tennis using Pygame
  
• Adding Facebook / Twitter / Google authorization to django application
  
• Migrating legacy data to your Django application
  No magic button, unfortunately. And you already know about inspectdb?
• Cloud Storage Box started opening its developments
  There are a couple of projects in Python
• Lightweight virtual environments in 3.4
  New features and ways to use the venv module, which is included in the standard library of the latest versions of Python
• Django BDD development
  A very worthy, worthwhile article about Behavior Driven Development - one of the possible tools for extreme programming.
• Flask Cache Application
  A good, detailed article about organizing caching in a web application using Flask-Cache
• Interview Questions and Answers from PythonAnywhere
  
• Cheat Sheet for django 1.5
  And in your office hanging on the wall something like that?
• Call 2.8
  A long article on how the next version of python 2.x could be useful and how it could be developed without interfering, but helping 3.x
• The long and painful process of making a patch in OpenStack
  Really hellish procedure for the first time.
• Fast Postgres with PyPy
  About porting psycopg2 and performance issues
• A collection of not the most obvious things in python to be aware of.
  
• Python2 vs Python3: syntax differences
  Overview of the differences in the syntax of the two versions, which were never destined to become one

Video

• Collection of video reports from PyCon 2014
  Very diverse and worthy materials. Do not miss in any way.

Interesting projects, tools, libraries

• Using IPython interact
  An example of interactive work with netCDF data using new functionality introduced in IPython 2.0
• GUI installer for Django 1.6.2 for Windows
  Very ... Um ... controversial fasting.
• flask-bouncer - a declarative description of access rights for Flask authorization
  
• DEPs - Formalizing the Way Forwarding Development Proposals to Django
  
• Django Eadred 0.3
  Eadred is a data generator for django applications. Now supports python 3.3
• grymt - an attempt to make not an alternative, but a replacement for Grunt for a separate set of tasks
  It may be interesting and useful to see the code if there is a task to invent another bicycle on this topic.
• Aiozmq performance evaluation
  Made a "puzomerka" to compare the performance of aiozmq and just pyzmq. And here the sequel
• asyncio and http
  asyncio does not know how to work with HTTP.
  So it was intended.
  asyncio will never become a web server. It was made exactly as an event loop for tcp, ssl, unix sockets, pipes, and subprocesses. Plus streaming API.
  The web was deliberately drunk and now what was in aiohttp. This part is simply not ripe for inclusion in the standard library.

Releases

• Mezzanine 3.1
  There are significant changes to the graphic part.