Python-digest # 33. News, interesting projects, articles and interviews [July 13, 2014 - July 20, 2014]

The latest news release from the world of Python. We continue to collect for you interesting information about your favorite programming language and nearby technologies. You might ask, what's new in the python world? And we will answer you, a lot of interesting events happened, such as, releases Tornado 4.0, Widgy CMS, PyMonad, Omega: new Python Web Framework, pycomedi 0.8. Interesting articles were published, effective multithreading in Python, deployment of the Django environment developer on Windows 7, rationale for using python, 1 lesson from the Python cycle for Android, SQLite - compact, fast and responsive - select all three points! More information about all this can be read under the cut.

For the illustration to the post, as before, we thank owlman75 , as well as alrusdi for the birth of the idea of ​​digests and for the fact that I can still publish these digests for you.

news

• OpenID for Python3
  Ivan Sagalaev suggests starting the openID development library for Python3 on github

Articles and Interviews

• Deploying the Django environment developer on Windows 7
  Excellent step-by-step article for beginners, on how to build a working environment for developing a project on Django in Windows 7
• Efficient multithreading in Python
  I want to share a simple recipe on how to efficiently perform a large number of http requests and other I / O tasks from regular Python. The most correct thing to do would be to use asynchronous frameworks like Tornado or gevent. But sometimes this option is not suitable, because it is problematic to build the event loop into an already existing project.
• Django-style Pyramid Admin Panel
  The article describes in detail how to bring the Pyramid admin panel to Django style.
• Learning Socket Programming
  An example of using the socket module for the interaction of local applications
• Numbers: integers, real, complex
  Numbers in Python 3: integers, real, complex. Work with numbers and operations on them.
• What questions to expect at the interview
  One of the readers asked this question on reddit and found many responses, some of which are interesting in themselves.
• Justification for using python
  Comparison of Go and Python in different parameters and arguments for choosing one or another for the next project
• Data analysis with Python. Basic statistics and data review (Exploratory Part 2)
  Many useful commands and examples of initial data processing on pandas
• 7 examples of using regular expressions
  Examples are primitive and academic, but may allow to understand quickly what's what
• SQLite is compact, fast and responsive - select all three items!
  Enthusiastic article with python code examples
• Tkinter - stdout redirect to text field
  
• Python for Android. Lesson 1 - use the accelerometer
  Promised a series of articles on the use of python for mobile application development. This time, a simple application on kivy
• Forgotten else in cycles
  The author of the article decided to recall that the while and for cycles have an optional optional else statement and gave examples of its use.
• Use magic methods to create a more pleasant API around regular expressions.
  

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Books and documentation

• Russian-language documentation with examples of some modules of the standard library
  The blog contains articles for the modules subprocess, sqlite, fnmatch, glob, logging, timeit, optparse, Queue, signal

Interesting projects, tools, libraries

• Widgy cms
  Widgy based Python / Mezzanine CMS with drag & drop interface to make managing your website content as easy as possible. Want to make sure, then here's a demo site for you .
• blokwart - new configuration management system
  According to the developers, this system is designed to occupy a niche between such complex monsters as Puppet, Chef, but to be more convenient than old-school control over ssh
• Simpleaes
  Library add-on over pycrypto. For synchronous AES encryption. The project requires additional testing.
• Python-ESCPOS
  Library for printing on thermal printers via COM or Ethernet.
• pynsist
  A fresh project that allows you to create python application installers for windows
• Pymonad
  Favorite haskelists monads now in python.
• Introduction to peewee - Alternative Python ORM
  An introductory article in an alternative ORM implementation for Python. In the article, the author portes his application from SQLAlchemy to peewee. peewee supports sqlite, postgres and MySQL.
• Omega: New Python Web Framework
  New Python Web Framework, which takes into account many implementation errors in Django and Flask
• Flask-AppBuilder 0.10.0
  A simple and fast application development platform created for Flask. Enables automatic CRUD generation for your models, Google charts and more.
• pycomedi 0.8
  This package provides an object-oriented interface for Comedi drivers.
• pytest-sftpserver 1.0.0
  A library for accessing SFTP, provides access based on Python objects.

Releases

• Tornado 4.0
  An impressive list of new features and fixes. It is worth paying attention.