Happy May and welcome to Django Round-up #9! I have a
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Featured
Alex Gaynor is stepping down from the DSF board to serve as a director of the Python Software Foundation. The DSF is looking for nominees to take the vacated spot. If you know someone that would be a good fit, get in touch!
We mentioned it in issue #7, but they are back with more info and it looks like it is really going to happen. If you're a diver and are interested in spending a week at the Red Sea in early 2014, sign up now. From the looks of it the trip is already half-full.
Links of Interest
A nice walk-through by Mark Lavin over at Caktus Group about how to use Transifex to handle internationalizing your Django app. If
i18n
is still foreign to you, check out
Jacob Burch's talk from DjangoCon last year
on the subject.
I think every Python developer has been bitten by orphaned
.pyc
files in the past. Use this hook to blow them away on every checkout. Check out the comments for an environment variable trick to wipe them out for good (locally).
Django's test discovery is pretty naïve compared to what's available in
py.test
. This post shows how to setup your project to use
py.test
instead, giving you more flexibility with where your tests live and how they are named.
Here's a clever snippet that allows you to attach a user object (or whatever object really) to your log output. This would be useful for following up with users on errors, metrics tracking, or providing a history to track in the case of a misbehaving visitor.
David Winterbottom extends an idea from a talk by Carl Meyer on how to ensure the code covered by certain tests aren't hitting the database. Useful to know that extra database requests aren't being made where they shouldn't.
This setup lets them handle a traditional web app (Django) and a websockets service (Twisted) via the same port and IP. It's pretty much a full dump of their server, including setup details and config files.
Daniel Greenfeld shows how he extended a reusable app (
django-filepicker
) with custom fields to make it compliant with South. All without modifying a line of code in the original package.
Extending Django REST Framework's
ModelSerializer
class to allow for additional fields that are only used for processing and not actually saved back to the model.
Moving from a "traditional" Django project to a JavaScript application backed by Django requires some changes to the way you structure your code. This post takes the reader through that author's journey doing just that.
A free and open source Django Tutorial starting from the basics. Originally in German and now translated to English.
New & Updated Packages
Django Jobs
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