Welcome to issue 199 of Python Weekly.

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News

$6M in New Funding for Jupyter/IPython Project
The Jupyter/IPython project has received $6M in funding. The grant will support the project for three years and includes new collaborations with the University of Southampton, and the Simula Research Lab in Norway.

PyTexas 2015 Call for Proposals
The PyTexas 2015 conference is now accepting proposals for talks to be presented at the conference. We want all kinds of proposals from people of all experience levels.  Your talk can be about anything related to the Python programming language or of interest to the Python community.


Articles, Tutorials and Talks

What’s New In Python 3.5
This article explains the new features in Python 3.5, compared to 3.4.

Episode #15: Python at Spotify, PSF, and PyLadies
A strong community is one of Python's super-powers and that's what this episode of Talk Python To Me is all about! We speak with Lynn Root about her work with Python at Spotify, her role in the PSF as a Python Software Foundation board member, how she came to be the founder of PyLadies San Francisco, her talks and presentations, as well as some excellent open source work she is doing. 

Podcast.__init__ Episode 13
In this episode we talked to Jacob Kovac, creator of the KivEnt game engine and one of the Kivy core developers. He told us about what inspired him to create the KivEnt project, some of the ways that he has managed to optimize rendering time and some of the problems that he has encountered as part of his work on the project. We also discussed what the use cases and limitations of the KivEnt engine are and he shared some of the projects that have been made with it.

Let's Build A Simple Interpreter. Part 2.
In this part shows you a new version of the calculator from Part 1 that will be able to: Handle whitespace characters anywhere in the input string, Consume multi-digit integers from the input and Subtract two integers (currently it can only add integers).

Asynchronous Tasks With Django and Celery
This post shows you how to integrate Celery into a Django and create periodic tasks.

The Toyplot Tutorial
Toyplot is a Python plotting library.  This tutorial will introduce you to the basics of working with Toyplot.

From Local Development to Remote Deployment with Docker Machine and Compose
The goal of this post is to develop an application in an environment that's as close to your remote deployment environment as possible. Let's do this using Docker Machine and Compose to move an app from local development to remote deployment.

Pandas Categoricals
Pandas Categoricals efficiently encode repetitive text data. Categoricals are useful for data like stock symbols, gender, experiment outcomes, cities, states, etc.. Categoricals are easy to use and greatly improve performance on this data.

Building a Movie Recommendation Service with Apache Spark & Flask - Part 1
This tutorial will guide you step-by-step into how to use the MovieLens dataset to build a movie recommender using collaborative filtering with Spark's Alternating Least Saqures implementation. It is organised in two parts. This first part is about getting and parsing movies and ratings data into Spark RDDs. 

• Part 2 - The second part is about building and using the recommender and persisting it for later use in our on-line recommender system.

SciPy 2015 Videos

Make A Raspberry Pi PyGame Social Network Monitor

iPython Tips and Tricks

Haskell-Style Fibonacci in Python

Understanding Neural Networks Through Deep Visualization


Books

Web Scraping with Python: Collecting Data from the Modern Web
Learn web scraping and crawling techniques to access unlimited data from any web source in any format. With this practical guide, you'll learn how to use Python scripts and web APIs to gather and process data from thousands--or even millions--of web pages at once. Ideal for programmers, security professionals, and web administrators familiar with Python, this book not only teaches basic web scraping mechanics, but also delves into more advanced topics, such as analyzing raw data or using scrapers for frontend website testing. 


Python Jobs of the Week

Sr. Engineer- Platform Team at Shopsense
Work on the core system which powers a highly scalable platform. As a senior member of the platform team you'll need to support existing platform, and build on new features on product requirement basis. Also mentor your junior members. Right from working on the architecture implementation, to scaling up the systems and monitoring of system resources is the responsibility of this team.


Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

interactive-coding-challenges
Challenges focus on algorithms and data structures that are typically found in coding interviews or coding competitions. Each challenge has two notebooks, a challenge notebook for you to solve and a solution notebook for reference.

bat-country
A lightweight, extendible, easy to use Python package for deep dreaming and image generation with Caffe and CNNs.

Autosub
Command-line utility for auto-generating subtitles for any video or audio file.

Mockpy
Mockpy is a python command line utility to create development mock servers under Mac OS X easily.

Py-GoogleTrans
Py-GoogleTrans is a Python library that translates the text you want to translate using Google Translate.

ripozo
A tool for quickly creating REST/HATEOAS/Hypermedia APIs in python.

Dusty
Docker-powered development environments.

Ryd.io
The idea of this project is to allow a user, or marketing lead, to explore and learn about a city from the frequency and volumne of taxi drop off points to focus marketing efforts. The goal was to provide an alternative view of a city that has been clustered into subgroups outlining different weekly and daily ride distributions.

slickr
A collection of python and bash scripts to collect and analyze frame rendering performance in Android apps.

Django Q
A multiprocessing task queue for Django.

DeepDreamVideo
Implementing deep dream on video.


New Releases

Django security releases issued: 1.8.3, 1.7.9, 1.4.21
These releases address several security issues detailed below. We encourage all users of Django to upgrade as soon as possible.

Python 3.5.0b3


Upcoming Events and Webinars

Getting Started in Open Source w/ Python - Chicago, IL
Ready to contribute to Open Source!? From git to licensing, you'll learn all about open source logistics and culture. Learn where to find projects and how to determine which projects are best for you. Get the low-down on how best to contribute and engage with open source maintainers. We will have projects and Python mentors for you to work on and support you as you make your first open source contribution. Publish and contribute to open source by the end of the day!

DC Python Meetup July 2015 - Washington, DC
There will be following talks

• An overview of Velociraptor, give a demo of an our in-production deployment, and also host a discussion about potential alternatives. 
•  Python vs. Ebola: This talk will focus on the use of Python in research supporting the response to the ongoing Ebola epidemic in West Africa. 

Boulder Python Meetup July 2015 - Boulder, CO
There will be a talk Flask on the Google App Engine.

Python Web Dev Night #16 - Minneapolis, MN
There will be a talk, Adventures in OAuth2 Land.

IndyPy Monthly Meetup July 2015 - Indianapolis, IN