Python-digest #6. News, interesting projects, articles and interviews [6 Dec 2013 — 13 Dec 2013]

are looking for interesting information about your favorite programming language and surrounding technologies. This time Python Weekly has announced a smaller event than usual but we found a lot of interesting and without them. So much that we banned on Juick for reposts. So the only resource which can be quickly to take the news remained only our rss.

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Articles and interviews

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• Why I hate virtualenv and pip
  The article was successfully transferred lightman in Russian
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• Profiling and debugging Python debugging
  The continuation of a series of great articles from Mailru Group

What makes static analysis of python code is challenging and fun


Monitoring changes to the files in the directory
The practical application of the watchdog module to monitor changes to files in the removed directory

Control Christmas lights using Raspberry Pi
Very extensive article on how to manage a string of python code

Guide to posting WSGI application with the CherryPy and Nginx
Pretty extensive article, but with the lack of argument on the issue of "why"

Graph database
The presentation slides from the conference are Odesa PY with practical knowledge of tools, technologies and nuances of the use of graph databases in Python

Testing Flask applications with Mock and Nose


the Creation of the elusive ssh bendora
Detailed article with pictures about one of the possible applications of the module paramiko the

• Python for microcontrollers
  Description Kickstarter project Micro Python — Python implementations that are optimized to work on 32-bit ARM microcontrollers.

Recipes work with Twitter via the API
Released network the ninth Chapter of the book 'Mining the Social Web, 2nd Edition'. It provided interesting even apart from the book as a whole collection of recipes for data mining with twitter (search, trends, popular, user information) the

• the details of using Python, Part 5: Multi-platform multi-threaded applications
  There were two articles next cycle. For those who have not followed previous editions, here is the links to all previous parts:
  Part 1. Version and compatibility
  Part 3. Functional programming
  Part 4. Parallel execution
  By the way, because of the funny bug on IBM Developers Network immediately knows the name of the next not yet adopted in part: 'how to integrate Python and C/C++ applications.'
  
  

Cultivated living language
Processing, analysis, categorization of texts in natural (human) language using NLTK library. For interested moggy to offer also to study earlier (March 2013) article Russian language

the with Statement examples
Detailed description and examples of the with statement

Improve your code: Testing
Continues a great series of articles about the basic principles that should underlie the design and development of complex software. the

• introduction to the analysis of textual information using Python and machine learning methods
  

Add stacktrace in logging
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• Python for the system administrator
  Lecture about the advantages and possibilities of the programming language with which the system administrator have to deal increasingly with the courses of information technology in Yandex.

TDD for the example of a simple application for Django

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Famous lectures from MIT on youtube
The news is not fresh, but someone might find interesting the link to the video lectures "Introduction to computer science and programming".

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Interesting projects, tools, libraries

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  • PyFence: verification types for Python
    Utility library that allows you to monitor the conformity of types while debugging your project
  
  
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  • the requires.io
    Service controlling the upgrading of the versions of the modules used in your projects on github and bitbucket and notifies you about this in several customizable ways. Free for open source projects
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  • param — parametrizable attributes
    The mechanism of the declarative description of constraints, documenting, specifying default values for class attributes
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  • telegraphy — Manager event messages in a django application in real time
    
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  • lino
    A framework combining high-level application stack of Django and Sencha ExtJS to simplify the development of RIA applications
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  • google — simple wraper
    A very simple module to search google without using site search or the API
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  • Domino PaaS for data processing
    A new platform for your complex calculations. Write code, run it on the service domino run main.py and you provided a link where you can monitor the progress and to see the results of running this code.
  
  

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Releases

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setuptools 2.0
The sudden jump in version 1.4.2 -> 2.0 is associated with the rejection of Python 2.4 and Python 2.5

Wing IDE 5.0.1


Biopython 1.63
Library for solving General computational problems of biology

PyDev 3.1.0
Updated scale plugin extends Eclipse to provide a convenient work on python projects. The main features of release: the automatic restart of modules; search for references to the data used in the variable; support debug Stackless Python

Django 1.6.1
Bugfix release. For those who have just started the transition to 1.6 is safe to update

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