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)