Python-digest # 29. News, interesting projects, articles and interviews [May 25, 2014 - June 1, 2014]

In today's digest of news, articles, interesting projects from the world of python quite a lot of releases. Alas, to the detriment of the number of articles. Apparently to the eyeballs of spring, the community decided to write more code than text. And if we consider that there was also a major release of git, then we can safely call this phenomenon non-local. Or just everyone played Watch Dogs. Nevertheless, the article is still there, including in Russian, including not with Habra. There is also a funny analyst of statistics tiobe - they say that the release of python 3 in 2011 made the project a lethal injection. And since then he has been dying on the road to a brighter future.

Thanks to owlman75 today is multiple - not only did the illustration, but also fixed the layout of the general list of issues on the tool for creating digests. If you yourself want to guide, and not to write articles, then I can offer you an interesting task for the benefit of the community and monitor its implementation. Know how to make changes to open projects? And on django 1.7 already tried to do something?


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Articles and Interviews

• What awaits us in Django 1.7
  
• Apply OpenCV and k-means methods to determine the dominant image colors
  Despite the furious title - the article is quite accessible written and can serve as an occasion to take a closer look at the numpy, cv2, sklearn megamodules
• Voice-to-text recognition using hidden Markov model
  
• It's time for watering: the practice of using the calendar module
  
• We continue to develop a test project for creating notes.
  Now with reminders, search and paging
• Python 3 kills Python
  Another stream of displeasure about the direction of Python as a project. Almost immediately after this article came a different opinion on this matter.
• In great detail, with tests and refactoring, we parse CSV files.
  
• Python 3 - lethal injection
  Controversial, but funny post to python3 haters' collection with tiobe statistics analysis
• Little wonderful python
  Example of using any to avoid code repetition.
• Restoring the time to create a similar file from a remote machine
  An example of using paramiko to restore file creation time from backup on a remote server
• Ten cool features that you lose without going to python 3
  
• Why iterating over a small row is slower than iterating over a small list
  A simple question with a wonderful, detailed answer to stackoverflow
• Working with meteorological data in Pandas
  It describes how to download data from Russian meteorological stations and convert them to a pandas DataFrame.
• Work with foreign texts. How to increase the percentage of understanding and learn the language?
  
• Thunderargs: practice of use. Part 1
  This thing, according to the author, is designed to process the parameters of the function using annotations

Video

• Introduction to programming games from Richard Jones
  

Interesting projects, tools, libraries

• ddlgenerator - create tables and data for RDBMS
  
• Pygal browser charts
  

Releases

• virtualenvwrapper 4.3
  
• mxODBC Connect 2.1
  
• Pandas 0.14
  
• ponyorm 0.5
  
• Anaconda 2.0
  
• PyCharm 3.4
  
• Pyminifier 2.0
  Library for compressing and obfuscating python code
• Biopython 1.64