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Daniel Bader's Youtube channel for python Developers
video
Useful Youtube channel with short screencast/videos for Python developers to subscribe to. I learned on couple of sublime + Python tricks from here.
dockerfiles/django-uwsgi-nginx:
docker
This Dockerfile shows you how to build a Docker container with a fairly standard and speedy setup for Django with uWSGI and Nginx.
Interesting Python Tutorials
curated list
I have read some interesting Python tutorials lately. I would love to share them with you.
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Kyoukai - a fully asynchronous, Flask-inspired web framework for Python 3.5+
web framework
Ky?kai is a fast asynchronous Python server-side web framework. It is built upon asyncio and the Asphalt framework for an extremely fast web server.
Upgrading to Python 3 with Zero Downtime YPlan Tech Blog
python3
We recently upgraded our 160,000 lines of backend Python code from Python 2 to Python 3. We did with zero downtime and no major errors! Here’s how we did it, hopefully it will help anyone else still stuck on Python 2!
BangPypers: Talks About Automation - 2016 August Meetup
automation
Bangalore user group meet with Python Automation as the theme
Mike Driscoll: ANN: The wxPython Cookbook Kickstarter
Kickstarter Campaign for wxPython Cookbook.
Talk Python to Me: #72 Fashion-driven open source software at Zalando
podcast
What happens when you take a tech-driven online fashion company that is experiencing explosive growth and infuse it with a deep open-source mission? You'll find out on this episode of Talk Python To Me. We'll meet Lauri Apple and Rafael Caricio from Zalando where developers there have published almost 200 open source projects on Github.
Controlling access: a Django permission apps comparison
django
There are many ways to handle permissions in a project. For instance we may have model level permissions, object level permissions, fine grained user permission or role based. Either way we don't need to be writing any of those from scratch, Django ecosystem has a vast amount of permission handling apps that will help us with the task. In this post we will compare how some popular permission apps work so you know which one suits your project needs.
Machinalis: Searching for aliens
image processing
Do you know what they are? If you are thinking of irrigation circles, you are wrong. Do not believe the lies of the conspirators. Those are, undoubtedly, proofs of extraterrestrial visitors on earth. As I want to be ready for the first contact I need to know where these guys are working. It should be easy with so many satellite images at hand. So I asked the machine learning experts around here to lend me a hand. Surprisingly, they refused. Mumbling I don’t know what about irrigation circles. Very suspicious. But something else they mentioned is that a better initial approach would be to use some computer-vision detection technique. Note - Code is here https://github.com/machinalis/satimg/blob/master/Searching%20for%20aliens.ipynb
Why you should learn Python ?
community
Hopefully this post gave you some insight into why you should consider giving Python a go. This post is coming from someone who feels “guilty” for talking not so good about Python in the past and is now all over the hype train. In my defense, it was just a “personal preference thing”, when people asked me about which language they should learn first, for instance, I usually suggested Python.
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