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Real Python: The Ultimate Guide to Django Redirects

Link: https://realpython.com/django-redirects/

When you build a Python web application with the Django framework, you’ll at some point have to redirect the user from one URL to another.
In this guide, you’ll learn everything you need to know about
Continuum Analytics Blog: Introducing Skein: Deploy Python on Apache YARN the Easy Way

Link: https://www.anaconda.com/blog/developer-blog/introducing-skein-deploy-python-on-apache-yarn-the-easy-way/

By Jim Crist *This post is reprinted with permission from Jim Crist’s blog. The original post can be found here.In this post, I introduce Skein, a new tool and library for deploying applications on Ap
Peter Bengtsson: django-pipeline and Zopfli

Link: https://www.peterbe.com/plog/ZopfliPipelineCachedStorage

tl;dr; I wrote my own extension to django-pipeline that uses Zopfli to create .gz files from static assets collected in Django. Here's the code.
Nginx and Gzip
What I wanted was to continue to use dja
James Bennett: For hire

Link: https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2018/apr/11/hire/

Update: I am (as of August 2018) once again gainfully employed.
Since a slightly-wider circle of people know this now, it’s time to just go public with the news: my last day at now-former employer was
Bhishan Bhandari: Google APIs and Python – Part II

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheTaraNights/~3/w0vHL3DhM6o/

Google services are cool and you can build products and services around it. We will see through examples how you can use various google services such as spreadsheet, slides and drive through Python. I
Talk Python to Me: #174 Coming into Python from another Industry (part 2)

Link: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/174/coming-into-python-from-another-industry-part-2

Not everyone comes to software development and Python through 4-year computer science programs at universities. This episode highlights one alternative journey into Python.
PyBites: A Python Orientation - How to Get Started

Link: https://pybit.es/guest-python-orientation.html

Python is a wonderful language for both beginners and expert programmers, but getting started can be daunting. Which version should I use? Which editors are best? What do you mean there are different
Kay Hayen: Nuitka this week #4

Link: http://nuitka.net/posts/nuitka-this-week-4.html


Contents

Goto Generators
Tox Plugin
Twitter
Hotfixes
Plans



Goto Generators
This continues TWN #3 where
I explained what is all about.
Good news is, at the time Python2 generators were largely wor
Christoph Zwerschke: Using GraphQL or REST, that is the question

Link: https://cito.github.io/blog/shakespeare-with-graphql/


This blog has been dormant for too long – it’s time to post another article. In order to live up to the blog title, this article will combine some old and seasoned stuff (PostgreSQL and Shakespeare’s
Stack Abuse: Using Regex for Text Manipulation in Python

Link: https://stackabuse.com/using-regex-for-text-manipulation-in-python/

Introduction
Text preprocessing is one of the most important tasks in Natural Language Processing (NLP). For instance, you may want to remove all punctuation marks from text documents before they can
Codementor: Hunting Intermittent Tests

Link: https://www.codementor.io/davedash/hunting-intermittent-tests-mi7bseox7

There’s a sad time in testing land when you have a test suite that you can’t rely on. Instead of running a suite and merging if it passes, you have to glance over the failed tests and say “Oh that one
Davy Wybiral: DIY Game Controller (soldering project)

Link: http://davywybiral.blogspot.com/2018/08/diy-game-controller-soldering-project.html

I got a new Hakko soldering iron so it's time to melt some metal!This video shows how to make a working game controller out of only a perf board, some tactile buttons, and an Arduino Pro Micro. The co
Weekly Python StackOverflow Report: (cxxxix) stackoverflow python report

Link: http://python-weekly.blogspot.com/2018/08/cxxxix-stackoverflow-python-report.html

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.Between brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2018-08-18 11:06:51 GMTProblems with using a rough greyscale algorithm?
Evennia: Inline building in upcoming Evennia 0.8

Link: http://evennia.blogspot.com/2018/08/inline-building-in-upcoming-evennia-08.html

Evennia, the Python MUD-server game development kit, is slowly creeping closer to its 0.8 release.In our development branch I've just pushed the first version of the new OLC (OnLine Creator) system. T