Issue #202: Lean on

Weekly dose of all things Python.

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News

Scrapy has Beta Python 3 Support!
More details after the jump!
scrapy.org
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Django releases issued: 1.9.2 (security) and 1.8.9 (bugfix)
Django has released a Security release for the 1.9.x versions and a bugfix release for the 1.8.x versions. Time to upgrade your versions! Click through for more details about whats in these releases.
djangoproject.com
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Discussion

New to python... Which IDE should I use?
reddit.com
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Jobs

Senior Software Engineer (Chicago, IL)
Posted By Digital H2O. PROMOTED

Senior Database Developer, Robot Fleets (Kitchener, ON, Canada)
Posted By Clearpath Robotics.

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Projects

whatportis
awesome cli tool for finding what ports certain programs are running. ðŸ’¯
github.com
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twtxt
Minimalist microblogging tool for hackers.
github.com
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himawaripy
Interesting! Adds a near-realtime picture of the earth to as your desktop background. Pictures from from Himawari 8 (A Japanese weather satellite).
github.com
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vote-knope
Get rid of all the +1's from your Github issue comments.
github.com
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viz
Interactive visualizations and stats of GitHub's newest, most popular repos.
github.com
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GraphvizAnim
This is useful, creates animated graph visualizations, based on Graphviz and ImageMagick for gif rendering.
github.com
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python-html-assert
Utility for asserting the structure and content of HTML in python. This is an alpha, but interesting project all the same!
github.com
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fate
fate is a simple CLI program which let's you browse FontAwesome icons on your terminal
github.com
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aio-libs
A collection of high quality asyncio libraries.
github.com
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PyDataset
Provides instant access to many datasets right from Python (in pandas DataFrame structure).
github.com
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dtags
Add tags to your directories with dtag. Perfect for the person who is looking to optimize their workflow.
github.com
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Articles

mlxtend
A library of consisting of helper modules for Python's data analysis and machine learning libraries.
github.com
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Writing Unit Tests for Django Migrations
Neat blog post on how to write tests for Django migrations. Green hair!!
caktusgroup.com
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What is Stackless?
Quick primers on What is stackless?
cosmicpercolator.com
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Async Python and Cassandra with Gevent
nice introduction to using gevent to minimize wasted I/O time.
rustyrazorblade.com
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Building an SMS powered Game Genie
At first thought you maybe thinking why? Even at a second thought, but none the less a cool demo.
twilio.com
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Using your spam filter in real life
The second part in a serious about implementing your own spam filter, this shows you to how to use your own spam filter to filter your emails!
cambridgecoding.com
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