Issue #163: Reptile

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News

PyCon India 2015 call for proposals
PyCon India 2015 is happening October 2nd -5th in Bangalore. Call for proposals is open now, so its time to submit yours!
pycon.org
Shared by @kracetheking

Django Birthday
Interested in celebrating Django's 10th birthday in Lawrence, Kansas? If so, click through to register!
djangobirthday.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

Security Advisory: Arbitrary file inclusion through docutils
A Django Security advisory to configure your Django project safely when using docutils.
djangoproject.com
Shared by @myusuf3

Jython 2.7 release candidate 3 available!
Time to check out Jython 2.7 RC3, report any problems if you encounter them.
blogspot.ca
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Discussion

Google Python Style Guide
reddit.com
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Jobs

Python Developer - 3 Positions (Palo Alto, CA)
Posted By Stanford University.

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Projects

ramlfications
A reference implementation of the a RAML parser in Python.
github.com
Shared by @roguelynn

juicebox
A virtual machine designed for Programming workshops so you can focus on the programming and not trying to set up miscellaneous environments.
github.com
Shared by @jpadilla_

Rodeo: A data science IDE for Python
An IDE by Å·hat expressly built for doing Data Science in Python. They are suggesting you think of it as a light weight alternative to the IPython Notebook.
yhathq.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

pipreqs
Generate yourself a requirements.txt based on the imports in your project. Useful!
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

thefu*k
An app which corrects your previous console command.
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

django-seed
Generate fake/test data for your Django database.
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

color-thief-py
Grabs the dominant color or a representative color palette from an image.
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

credstash
A little utility for managing credentials in the cloud with AWS.
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

Articles

Hacking an epic NHL goal celebration with a hue light show and real-time machine learning
This is amazing! Very cool hack, configure your Philips Hue to perform a celebatory light show when your team scores.
francoismaillet.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

Porting to Python 3 is like â€œeating your vegetablesâ€
Why has moving to Python 3 been so slow? Apparently its like "eating your vegetables" , more on this in this post by Brett Cannon.
svbtle.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

Python decorators: metaprogramming with style
One truism of Python programming is that we never get sick of blog posts about decorators. This post is no exception, with a lean towards metaprogramming. Worth reading.
lgiordani.com
Shared by @tw_lgiordani

A Year of PyPI Downloads
A look back at the last year of PyPI downloads and some relevant stats.
caremad.io
Shared by @mgrouchy

Adding Requests to the standard library
A look at the discussion at the Python language summit about adding requests to the Python standard library.
lwn.net
Shared by @mgrouchy

Report from the Python Language Summit
A roundup/report of the goings on at the Python Language Summit.
lwn.net
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The Little Book of Python Anti-Patterns â€” Python Anti-Patterns
Fantastic collection of the "what not to do's" of Python programming.
quantifiedcode.com
Shared by @quantifiedcode

Testing (asyncio) coroutines with pytest
An approach to testing asyncio coroutines with your Pytest setup. Very useful.
sofa-rockers.org
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Pandas & Burritos - Analyzing Chipotle Order Data
Very cool article where the author analyses Grubhub Chipolte orders with pandas an a iPython notebook.
danielforsyth.me
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Bytecode hacking for great justice
fastforwardlabs.com
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