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News

Python Developers Survey 2023

The annual Python developers survey is out. Please take a moment to share your Python practices as the results do have a big impact on the organizations and maintainers in our community.

Takahē: Life-Critical Side Projects

Andrew Godwin, the developer of Takahē, is looking for new maintainers who want to help out in exchange for mentorship.

Updates to Django

Last week we had 14 pull requests merged into Django by 9 different contributors - including 2 first time contributors! Congratulations to chenow and Patrick Rauscher for having their first commit merged into Django - welcome on board!

Some interesting things from last week...

Django 5.1 increased support for window frames. Specifically, RowRange and ValueRange now accept an exclusion argument.
We had some security releases issued: 4.2.7, 4.1.13, and 3.2.23
There was an interesting forum discussion around updating the DEP process.

Do you speak Português or हिंदी? We will soon have a translation string freeze for the 5.0 release, so this is a good time to join a translation team! You can see the languages Django supports on transifex as well as the ones missing translations. Perhaps you can help translate Django and make it more accessible to our global community!

Articles

Database generated columns ⁽¹⁾: Django & SQLite

An introduction to database-generated columns using SQLite and the new GeneratedField added in Django 5.0.

Using SQLite for a Django application on fly.io

How to attach volumes, run migrations, and get SQLite working for Django applications on Fly.io.

Debugging CSRF Failed / 403 Forbidden errors in Django

A guided deep dive into Django's source code to understand why your application is failing CSRF validation.

How to Kill the Django Development Server Without Ctrl+C

Sometimes, you lose track of your terminal window but still need to stop a Django development server. Here's how!

GitHub Actions: Faster Python runs with cached virtual environments

A pattern to speed up the GitHub Actions workflow of projects using Python, Pip, and pip-tools.

Events

PyLadiesCon 2023 schedule is up

The PyLadiesCon 2023 Online conference schedule is live and spans ~24 hours, and three days, of back-to-back talks.

Django Boston meetup reboot: Mixing reliability with Celery and API Client Generation

Django Boston is back on November 14th at 6pm EST with two talks on Celery and API client generation.

PyLadies Paris Python Talks

Three talks on November 16th on topics including no downtime migrations in Django.

Recap of DjangoCon US 2023 by Katherine Michel

Whether you attended DjangoCon US in person, virtually, or wished you could, this is a fantastic deep writeup of the event from one of its organizers.

Videos

Lightning talks - Django Day CPH 2023

30 minutes of Lightning talks from Django Day in Copenhagen recently.

Django Day CPH 2023: Pessimism, optimism, realism and Django database concurrency by Aivars Kalvans

A look at concurrency in the database through programming language concepts and try to understand what happens behind the scenes of pessimistic and optimistic locking.

Django Day CPH 2023: A minimal Django testing styleguide by Joseph Victor Zammit

How and why to have a style guide for tests in your Django application.

Podcasts

Django Chat #150: Contributing to Django with Sarah Boyce

Sarah is a British developer based in Germany who is a member of Django’s Review and Triage Team. She is also a co-organizer of Djangonaut Space, a new mentorship program to onboard and develop Django contributors.

Sarah also contributes to our Django News "Updates to the Django" section.