Issue #191

Rocket

Nov. 6, 2015

Rocket
Django 1.8.6, Anaconda 2.4, sops, building simple CLI's with Python and much more.

Issue #191: Rocket

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News


Django bugfix release issued: 1.8.6
Time to upgrade your Django versions to this latest bugfix release. See all the release notes here!
djangoproject.com
Shared by @mgrouchy
 

scikit-learn 0.17 released!
Scikit-Learn 0.17 has been released with tons of changes, enhancements and features.
scikit-learn.org
Shared by @mgrouchy
 

Anaconda 2.4 Released
The latest version of Anaconda has been released. This version boasts a ton of features including Python 3.5 installers, Conda speed improvements and more! Check it out!
continuum.io
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Pyston 0.4 released
A new version of Pyston is out, with a reported 25% speedup on CPython in some areas and tons of general performance improvements over previous releases. Click through to check out the full release notes!
pyston.org
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Discussion


What became of Stackless?
reddit.com
Shared by @myusuf3
 

Stepping from Matlab to Python
reddit.com
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Jobs

Projects


pykcd
Python interface for the XKCD API
github.com
Shared by @myusuf3
 

remi
Impressively small, platform independent python GUI library.
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy
 

neural-storyteller
neural-storyteller is a recurrent neural network that generates little stories about images. Read me after the jump some details on how this actually works!
github.com
Shared by @myusuf3
 

confidant
Stores secrets, encrypted in DynamoDB.
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy
 

curio
A library for performing reliable concurrent I/O using Python coroutines. Worth checking out, and of course, hit the README for more details!
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy
 

letsencrypt-nosudo
Allows you to use the letsencrypt CLI to generate free SSL Certificates without granting it sudo privileges.
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy
 

harvey
This is great, harvey is a cli to allow you to manage your open source licenses in your project.
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy
 

sops
sops is an editor of encrypted files that supports YAML, JSON and TEXT formats and encrypts with AWS KMS and PGP (via GnuPG). You can check out a brief video demo here.
github.com
Shared by @myusuf3
 

Articles


Building Simple Command Line Interfaces in Python
This article shows you how to build simple command line programs with python and docopt -- and how to structure your programs for simplicity.
stormpath.com
Shared by @rdegges
 

ActivePython vs. Open Source Python: What's the Difference?
A look at the differences between ActiveState's ActivePython and using an Open Sourced version of Python.
activestate.com
Shared by @activestate
 

Test MongoDB Failure Scenarios With MockupDB
Nice guide to testing Failure Scenarios in your MongoDB applications with MockupDB. MockupDB is a tool for doing black pipe testing of your MongoDB applications.
emptysqua.re
Shared by @mgrouchy
 

Let’s Build A Simple Interpreter. Part 6.
I don't know if I can keep saying this enough, but this series of articles are great. You should check out part 6 of this tutorial for building a simple interpreter.
ruslanspivak.com
Shared by @mgrouchy
 

matplotlib styles examples
A jupyter notebook showing examples of different styles for Matplotlib.
ipython.org
Shared by @mgrouchy
 

A Summer with Morepath
A look at the web framework you probably don't know about!
stacktrace.ch
Shared by @mgrouchy
 

Building Data Pipelines with Python and Luigi
This discusses some experience building data pipelines, e.g. extraction, cleaning, integration, pre-processing of data for production systems.
marcobonzanini.com
Shared by @myusuf3
 

Advanced Jupyter Notebook Tricks — Part I
Awesome post for little hacks to make Jupyter experience a little better!
dominodatalab.com
Shared by @myusuf3
 

Teardown: Refactoring Search from Django App to Microservice
Fun read about pulling out a piece of a Django application into its own microservice!
safaribooksonline.com
Shared by @myusuf3
 
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