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DjangoCon US Call for Proposals is Open!

DjangoCon US is scheduled for October 16-21 in San Diego, CA. The deadline for proposals is June 10, 2022.

DjangoCon Europe 2022 Call for Proposals

DjangoCon Europe is happening September 21-25th in Porto, Portugal. The deadline for proposals is May 31, 2022.

Python Release Python 3.11.0b1

The first of four planned beta release previews for Python 3.11. This release is a feature freeze which means that no new features or APIs will be added to 3.11 and only bugfixes are allowed.

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Articles

REPL Python programming and debugging with IPython

IPython's powerful interactive prompt makes it a great tool for debugging Python code. Luke Plant demonstrates how.

Django Testing Tutorial

A comprehensive guide to testing Django applications. Covers creating/testing multiple static pages and a message board application.

Announcing the PyOxy Python Runner

PyOxy is a single file Python distribution and highly portable (C)Python distribution used for running Python interpreters.

Adding GraphQL to your Django App

Patrick Altman shows us how to add GraphQL to your Django App using Graphene or Strawberry.

Celery Alternative for Django - Huey

Trying out a lightweight asynchronous task queue as an alternative to Celery with Django.

Tutorials

How to Create a Django Cookiecutter from Scratch

A tutorial on how to create a new Django project from scratch using the popular Django Cookiecutter package.

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Datapane is Hiring Senior and Mid Django Developers Remotely

Datapane is an open-source framework which makes it easy for data scientists to create reports, dashboards, and apps using Python. They are growing quickly and are hiring amazing Django developers to help build their report hosting and app execution PaaS.

Podcasts

Test & Code: Python + Django + Rich + Testing == Awesome

Guests Adam Johnson and David Smith discuss django-rich and newly-added colorized tracebacks to the Django test runner.

Projects

tonybaloney/perflint

Perflint is a Python Linter for performance anti-patterns. It's very beta and very promising.

mkdocstrings/mkdocstrings

Automatic documentation from sources, for MkDocs.

coleifer/huey

A little task queue for Python.

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