Python News for February
Events
- PyCon 2016 - Portland, May 28 - June 5
- https://us.pycon.org/2016
- Tutorials: May 28 - 29
- Conference: May 30 - June 1
- Sprints: June 2 - 5
Articles, Tutorials and Talks
- Writing unit tests for Django Migrations
- https://www.caktusgroup.com/blog/2016/02/02/writing-unit-tests-django-migrations/
- Celery best practices
- https://blog.balthazar-rouberol.com/celery-best-practices
- The benefits of static typing without static typing in Python
- http://pawelmhm.github.io/python/static/typing/type/annotations/2016/01/23/typing-python3.html
- https://github.com/JukkaL/mypy
Interesting projects
- Warehouse - nextgen Python package index
- http://pyfound.blogspot.ca/2016/01/welcome-to-warehouse.html
- Drake - Make for data
- https://www.factual.com/blog/introducing-drake-a-kind-of-make-for-data
Releases
- Pycoders Weekly 200th issue! http://pycoders.com/
- Ansible 2
- Task blocks / better error handling in playbooks
- dynamic includes (previously pre-processor statements)
- execution strategies
- tons of new modules (OpenStack, AWS, VMWare, Windows, Docker)