Brian #1: TinyMongo


Like MongoDB, but built on top of TinyDB.
Even runs on a Raspberry Pi, according to Stephen


Michael #2: A dead simple Python data validation library


validus.isemail('someone@example.com')

Validation functions include:

isrgbcolor()
isphone()
isisbn()
isipv4()
isint()
isfloat()
isslug()
isuuid()

Requires Python 3.3+



Brian #3: PuDB


In episode 29, https://pythonbytes.fm/29, I talked about launching pdb from pytest failures.
@kidpixo pointed out that PuDB was a better debugger and can also be launched from pytest failures.
Starting pudb from pytest failed tests (from docs):
pytest --pdbcls pudb.debugger:Debugger --pdb --capture=no
Using pytest-pudb plugin to do the same:
pytest --pudb


Michael #4: Analyzing Django requirement files on GitHub


From the pyup.io guys
Django is the most popular Python web framework.
It is now almost 12 years old and is used on all kinds of different projects.
Django developers pin their requirements (64%): Pinned or freezed requirements (Django==1.8.12) make builds predictable and deterministic.
Django 1.8 is the most popular major release (24%)

A bit worrisome are the 1.9 (14%), 1.7 (13%) and 1.6 (13%) releases on the second, third and fourth place. All of them are no longer receiving security updates, 1.7 and 1.6 went EOL over 2 years ago.

Yikes: Only 2% of all Django projects are on a secure release

Among all projects, more than 60% use a Django release with one or more known security vulnerabilities. Only 2% are using a secure Django release.
On the remaining part of more than 30% it's unclear what exactly is going to be installed. That's because the Django release is either unpinned or has a range.



Brian #5: Changelogs


http://keepachangelog.com
https://github.com/hawkowl/towncrier


Michael #6: Understanding Asynchronous Programming in Python


by Doug Farrell via Dan Bader’s site
A synchronous program is what most of us started out writing, and can be thought of as performing one execution step at a time, one after another.
Example: A web server

Could be synchronous
Could be fully optimized but
You’re at best still waiting on network IO back to all the web clients

The Real World is Asynchronous: Kids are a long running task with high priority, superseding any other task we might be doing, like the checkbook or laundry.
Example 1: Synchronous Programming (using queuing)
Example 2: Simple Cooperative Concurrency (using generators)
Example 3: Cooperative Concurrency With Blocking Calls (same, but with slow operations)
Example 4: Cooperative Concurrency With Non-Blocking Calls (gevent)
Example 5: Synchronous (Blocking) HTTP Downloads
Example 6: Asynchronous (Non-Blocking) HTTP Downloads With gevent
Example 7: Asynchronous (Non-Blocking) HTTP Downloads With Twisted
Example 8: Asynchronous (Non-Blocking) HTTP Downloads With Twisted Callbacks


Errata/Giving Credit:


Also in episode 29, https://pythonbytes.fm/29, I talked about pipcache as an alias for pip download. I think I said the author of a blog post contacted me. It wasn’t him. It was @kidpixo. Sorry kidpixo, keep the ideas coming.


For fun: Python Private Methods


http://turnoff.us/geek/python-private-methods/


Our news


Beta 3 of Python Testing with pytest should come out this week with Chapter 7: Using pytest with other tools, which includes using it with pdb, coverage.py, mock, tox, and Jenkins.

Next beta will be the appendices, including a clean up and rewrite of pip and venv appendices, plus a plugin sampler pack, and a tutorial on packaging.
Thanks to everyone who has submitted Errata.

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