Issue #195: Notes

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News

GPIO Zero: a friendly Python API for physical computing
This is amazing. A friendly Python API for physical computing with the Raspberry PI. Check it out.
raspberrypi.org
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Django 1.9 released
Check out the new hotness in Django 1.9. Upgrade your versions or click through for more details!
djangoproject.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

PyPy installable python packages
Wondering what python packages are installable on PyPy? Check this out.
pypy.org
Shared by @mgrouchy

Discussion

GvR: The transition to Python 4 won't be like the transition to Python 3 ("we've learned our lesson")
reddit.com
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TIL 'import antigravity'
reddit.com
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Jobs

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Projects

glances
A cross-platform curses-based system monitoring tool written in Python.
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

acme-tiny
Let's Encrypt is incredible. This tiny script can be used to issue and renew TLS certs from Let's Encrypt.
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

microservices
Examples of Microservices written using Flask.
github.com
Shared by @myusuf3

conan
A distributed, open source, package manager for C/C++. Interesting.
github.com
Shared by @myusuf3

pick
Minimal password manager for OS X and Linux
github.com
Shared by @myusuf3

vocabulary
Python Module to get Meanings, Synonyms and what not for a given word. Your Python module dictionary!
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

python-rapidjson
Python wrapper around RapidJSON. RapidJSON is an extremely fast C++ json serialization library.
github.com
Shared by @myusuf3

ripozo-oasis
This project boasts "How to turn your database into a ReSTful API in under 10 lines of code" check it out!
github.com
Shared by @ripozoframework

deepdreamer
Easy to configure Python program that make use of Google's DeepDream.
github.com
Shared by @kesara_nr

Articles

Creating standalone Mac OS X applications with Python and py2app
This is pretty cool. If you are looking to create distributable standalone apps for OSX this is the article for you. In this tutorial the author creates a simple Tkinter mac desktop app and packages with py2app.
metachris.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

If I were designing Python's import from scratch
Some thoughts from core Python developer Brett Cannon of how he would design Python's import if he were starting from scratch.
snarky.ca
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Optimizing slow Django REST Framework performance
A look at Django REST Framework performance and how to fix some common performance problems that pop up.
github.io
Shared by @mgrouchy

Python List Comprehensions: Explained Visually
Can we do an issue without explaining List comprehensions or decorators? Probably not! This is another nice article looking at List Comprehensions in a visual way.
treyhunner.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

Better tests for Redis integrations with redislite
Introduces a pretty cool tool called redislite and teaches how to use it to solidify your redis code base.
obeythetestinggoat.com
Shared by @myusuf3

Using Numba for Performance Gains
This post looks at how Numba can be used to speed up a finance example with minimal effort.
ipython.org
Shared by @myusuf3

Visualize sklearn trees with D3
So cool. See the actual rules that classification trees use!
planspace.org
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