Python-digest #8. News, interesting projects, articles and interviews [20 Dec 2013 — 27 Dec 2013]

in a Hurry to congratulate all with coming new year. The gift I really is quite small — all the same latest news about Python and surrounding technologies. But there are interesting things about searching, Android applications, graphical interface for databases, OAuth, TDD, CMS and other letter combinations.

The results of the vote previous digest with a lead of as many as six votes I not allowed to do the release on 3 January, we expect the extended version of January 10,

Thank you owlman for illustration to the issue. By the way, he also writing about Python but unfortunately, not very often. Dreams patch the day to 30 hours instead of 24.



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• time series Analysis with python
  An attempt to describe the process of analyzing time series using the statsmodels module.

TDD with Django 1.6
An example implementation of the approach code development based on writing tests and subsequent writing code that passes those tests. Pictures, code examples, functional and unit tests. It is worthy reading article.

Introduction to web development with Pyramid part 4
The continuation of a series of articles in this time we are talking about controlling intelligent URLS and query processing, and also shows the flow of query framework

Functional programming
Description of the differences between OOP, procedural and functional programming and the basic techniques latest available in python the

• the Simple interpreter with zero on Python #2
  The second of the planned four-part series cabretta — this time to extract the AST (abstract syntax tree) from the list of tokens

Who am I? Game for facebook on flask
Plans a series of articles with step by step guide on how to create a simple social game the

• Creating Android applications using Python and SL4A, Part 1: Building a development environment
  

Overcoming the problem of the GIL in Cython
We are talking about the possibility of running procedures in threads without locks using the switch with nogil the

• the details of using Python: Part 6
  Ways to integrate Python and C/C++ applications
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• the details of using Python: Part 7.
  Interaction with C++. The distutils package, the Boost library.Python, the Cython project
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• the details of using Python: Part 8.
  Interaction with C++. The SWIG project and backward integration of Python, C/C++ applications

Output data from SQLite to pdf
Used actively developed by the author of xtopdf library the

• Peewee – lightweight, flexible and very fast ORM
  Free interpretation of introductory tutorial and partially Peewee documentation

to Scroll the command history for bpython
bpython is a beautiful and functional interface to the standard Python interpreter for *nix.
Now you can come to the conclusion, which has already left over the top of the terminal. The recipe is based on inotify watching the code change in the file system and perezagruzka server

Designing server applications for the secure storage of OAuth 2 tokens, and other secrets
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• IT books for free price
  Including the masterpiece Lutz "Programming Python" and "Django. Developing web applications in Python" by author Jeffrey Force, Paul Bissex and Wesley Chan

Have Your DB now has her own website!
The sandman library is providing a REST API and beautiful graphic interface for your database (list of supported is impressive and certainly includes the major players in MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle, MS SQL server)

creating a full-text search engine using bloom filter
Very interesting article about the use of the module pybloom for ogrganizatsii search, for example, on a static website. A bloom filter is a probabilistic data structure, conceived, allowing compactly to store set of elements and test membership of a given element to the set

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• pypi.info — Improve search results by packages on PYPI
  In the list are immediately visible github-stars / followers of the author, sorting.

Gruvi — network library
Uses libuv and implements many useful features — such as installing and maintaining SSL connections, abstrace asynchronous operations in a synchronous style, HTTP client and server. Designed to compete on the level of convenience of design such as gevent, concurrence, eventlet, asyncio

snowjob — and let in the terminal it will snow


dnspython — automatically add dns records on the new application server
Can add BIND information about the new application server so that it will uchastvovat in the load distribution system according to the principle of round robin

EasyAI — artificial intelligence for Board games
The library has no additional dependencies implementing the strategy in such games as TIC-TAC-toe, Reversi, four in a row

PyBuilder — analogues Maven in pure python

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Django Debug Toolbar 1.0


Mezzanine 3.0 and Cartridge 0.9
Wonderful CMS on Django and its sub-project to create online stores made up of new versions. The emphasis is on compatibility with new versions of the components used (Django 1.6, Python 3.3, Bootstrap 3)

Pylint 1.1 — Christmas release
A whole bunch of new checks, fixes and improvements to documentation, bug fixes in General, it is a celebration of some kind

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