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Brian #1: Pendulum for datetimes


on github
See also

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maya
datetime, and Dealing with datetimes like a pro in Python
dateutil



Michael #2: Flask asynchronous background tasks with Celery and Redis


Easiest way to a significant scalability to your app: queuing
What is Celery: Celery is an asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing. It is focused on real-time operation, but supports scheduling as well
How Celery works:

Celery client: This will be connect your Flask application to the Celery task
Celery worker: A process that runs a background task
Message broker: The Celery client communicates to the Celery worker through a message broker (redis in this case)

All examples on Windows


Brian #3: Building a Simple Web App With Bottle, SQLAlchemy, and the Twitter API


Guest article on RealPython, by Bob Belderbos of PyBytes
Fun full project start to finish using Tweepy to load tweets.
Ends with a bottle app running on Heroku


Michael #4: Python extension for VSCode updated, now brought to you by Microsoft


Don Jayamanne, creator of the Python extension for Visual Studio Code, joins Microsoft
Full announcement: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/pythonengineering/2017/11/09/don-jayamanne-joins-microsoft/
Had Don on Talk Python back on episode 101.
What does Microsoft Python team publishing the extension mean?
For all practical purposes the transition should be transparent to you. Additionally:

The extension will remain open source and free
Development will continue to be on GitHub, under the existing license
More dev resources means (generally) faster turnaround on bug fixes and new features

Microsoft is hiring for Visual Studio Code / Python! They are hiring devs immediately to continue and expand work on our Python support for Visual Studio Code. If you are passionate about developer tools and productivity, this could be an ideal endeavor!


Brian #5: A Comprehensive Guide To Web Design


Crash course in web design principles, not the mechanics


Michael #6: Requestium


Integration layer between Requests and Selenium for automation of web actions.
Merges the power of Requests, Selenium, and Parsel into a single integrated tool for automatizing web actions.
The library was created for writing web automation scripts that are written using mostly Requests but that are able to seamlessly switch to Selenium for the JavaScript heavy parts of the website, while maintaining the session.
Features

Enables switching between a Requests' Session and a Selenium webdriver while maintaining the current web session.
Integrates Parsel's parser into the library, making xpath, css, and regex much cleaner to write.
Improves Selenium's handling of dynamically loading elements.
Makes cookie handling more flexible in Selenium.
Makes clicking elements in Selenium more reliable.
Supports Chrome and PhantomJS.



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