Issue #46

New Year

Dec. 28, 2012

New Year
New releases of Twisted, Gunicorn, and much more.

Issue #46: New Year

 

Friday,  December 28th, 2012


Hi Pythonistas,

Last issue of the year people, enjoy. Tons more coming in the new year. 
 
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News and Developments.

Mezzanine 1.3 and Cartridge 0.7 released (google.com)

Gunicorn 0.17.0 released! (readthedocs.org)
Plenty of new features in this Gunicorn release. SSL support, syslog support and more.

Python for Beginners (pythonforbeginners.com)
This looks like a great resource for Python beginners. There are lots of articles and “Cheat sheets” to get a new Python coder started.

Twisted 12.3.0 Released!
Tons of bug fixes, 161 to be exact in this release, and partial support for Python 3.3 more details after the jump.

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Discussions.

List Comprehensions for Fun and Profit (reddit.com)


Projects.

TerminaIMdB (github.com)
No need to open a browser to take a look at IMDB. With this app you can query IMDB from the command line. Pretty cool!

Jabba-Webkit (github.com)
Awesome. Jabba-Webkit is a headless webkit browser for scraping AJAX enabled web pages. Definitely useful if that site you want to get data from is AJAXy and doesn’t have an API.

pholcidae (github.com)
pholcidae is a tiny python module that lets you write web crawler fast and simply.

pygchart (github.com)
pygchart is a pretty nice tool for generating the JavaScript code responsible for generating a google charts as well as a HTML snippet using that code so you can get started right away.

aws-cli (github.com)
A command line interface for AWS, supports plenty of AWS tools such as EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, SNS and many others. Check it out.


Articles.

Django Performance Tuning (servercobra.com)
Bunch of solid tips for  measuring/improving performance with your Django applications and tools.

Regular Expressions Will Stab You in the Back (cueup.com)
Regular expression are hard to get right and often can get slow, this article proposed a few alternate solutions as well as a little reading on how the regular expression does it matching.

Encapsulating exceptions with context managers (blogspot.ca)
Clearing up the clutter of all those exceptions you are dropping with context managers. Albeit interesting use of context managers.

Philips Hue API Hacking (issackelly.com)
We love it when people hacking hardware, a little bit of reverse engineering never hurt anyone. Awesome post the code can be found here.

Why PyPy is the future of Python (scale-it.pl)

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