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PSF Board of Directors vote, Funding Django REST Framework, open-browser and much more.

Issue #218: Pyston

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News

Pyston 0.5 released
Version 0.5 of the Pyston project has been released. Pyston at this point has progressed enough to run NumPy unmodified. Click through for more details about this release!
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Reminder: Vote for the PSF 2016 Board of Directors
If you want to have a say in the PSF Board of Directors, now its time to vote!
blogspot.ca
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Funding Django REST Framework
Congratulations to Tom Christie for pursuing to secure a sustainable business model for REST framework development. Lets show him our support and if you use REST Frameworks please donate for its continued development.
django-rest-framework.org
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Discussion

Reverse Engineering A Mysterious UDP Stream in My Hotel
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Cool SQLAlchemy Trick
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What I dislike about Python
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Home Automation LCARS Template.
What is possible with a little time and Python!
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Projects

GooPyCharts
A Google Charts API for Python, meant to be used as an alternative to matplotlib.
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ankle
Find elements in HTML by matching them with a skeleton
github.com
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Stegano
StÃ©ganÃ´ is a Python Steganography module.
github.com
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python-execution-trace
Trace the local context of a Python function's execution with just a decorator.
github.com
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meson
The Meson Build System
github.com
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DockerDjangoRest
A Docker setup for a Django REST API with Travis CI support
github.com
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Open-Browser
A web browser designed to be open, minimal and fast.
github.com
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hammock: A good place to REST
Hammock provides a friendly approach to develop resources for a REST server.
github.com
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jsontableschema-pandas-py
Generate Pandas frames, load and extract data, based on JSON Table Schema descriptors.
github.com
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flask-ask
Building high-quality Alexa skills for Amazon Echo Devices takes time, flask-ask makes it easier and much more fun.
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Articles

Letâ€™s Build A Web Server. Part 3
The author has been teaching us how to build a simple interpreter, check out this series about building a web server.
ruslanspivak.com
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Reverse Engineering A Mysterious UDP Stream in My Hotel
In this post the author investigates what the mysterious UDP stream at the hotel could be.
gkbrk.com
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How to Add Phone Calling Bots to Slack with Python
Create a bot that can add people to a call via Slack. Pretty cool!
twilio.com
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Getting Started with the Slack API using Python and Flask
Learn how to use the Slack API using Python and Flask!
realpython.com
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Managing Python Ecosystems
Lean about ecoutils,a pure-Python module that, using nothing but builtins, generates a semantic, Python-centric profile of the environment that's running it. Also learn how you can use this to manage your Python ecosystems.
sedimental.org
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What I dislike about Python
There are things to dislike about Python? This author thinks so!
alecbrooks.net
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Pretty Formatting JSON in the Django Admin
pydanny.com
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Python 101: An Intro to Benchmarking Your Code
A little primer on benchmarking your Python code.
pythonlibrary.org
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Captioning Myself And 6 Other Ways I'll Prepare In The 24 Hours Before I Speak At Pycon
Are you prepping a PyCon talk? If so check out this advice for getting prepared.
emptysqua.re
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19 Free eBooks to learn programming with Python.
Free awesome books to get you started on various Python topics and frameworks.
mybridge.co
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Falling Through the Earth (and Mars)
Awesome article calculating the time it would take to fall through Earth and Mars.
wordpress.com
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