| | | | Issue #191: Rocket Weekly dose of all things Python.
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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
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scikit-learn 0.17 released!
Scikit-Learn 0.17 has been released with tons of changes, enhancements and features.
scikit-learn.org
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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
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Stepping from Matlab to Python
reddit.com
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| | Projects
pykcd
Python interface for the XKCD API
github.com
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remi
Impressively small, platform independent python GUI library.
github.com
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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
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confidant
Stores secrets, encrypted in DynamoDB.
github.com
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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
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letsencrypt-nosudo
Allows you to use the letsencrypt CLI to generate free SSL Certificates without granting it sudo privileges.
github.com
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harvey
This is great, harvey is a cli to allow you to manage your open source licenses in your project.
github.com
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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matplotlib styles examples
A jupyter notebook showing examples of different styles for Matplotlib.
ipython.org
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A Summer with Morepath
A look at the web framework you probably don't know about!
stacktrace.ch
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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
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Advanced Jupyter Notebook Tricks — Part I
Awesome post for little hacks to make Jupyter experience a little better!
dominodatalab.com
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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
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