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Administer WordPress using Django's Admin
I recently came across one feature of Django that seemed pretty useful for one
off projects and customizations and was startled because it’s one of Django’s
least mentioned features. In fact, I’ve been using Django at work for over 5
years now ...
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Mixins and Python
Python supports a simple type of multiple inheritance which allows the
creation of Mixins. Mixins are a sort of class that is used to “mix in”
extra properties and methods into a class. This allows you to create
classes in a compositional style.
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A Japanese Python Community Who's Who
There is a small but growing Python community in Japan. Many people, even some
of those Python enthusiasts who living in Japan, are unaware of this and don’t
know who any of these people are. There are a lot of reasons for this but the
number one ...
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Django's contrib.auth and django-newauth
Recently there have been a lot of conversations on the Django mailing list about
fixing the auth module. Here are some of the recent mailing list threads:
authentication by email
auth.User refactor: reboot
auth.User: The abstract base clas...
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Python Sets
I had an application with two lists of unique items that I wanted to
take the intersection of. I had figured that using a python set would be
faster but I didn’t realize that it would be faster than the simple list
comprehension by this much.
~$ ...
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PyCon JP 2011 was Awesome!
On Saturday we held our first PyCon JP 2011. We had approximately 230 people
show up which I think is great for a first time Python conference in Japan. I
want to thank all the members of the planning committee, staff, and attendees
for such ...
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PyCon JP 2011
The Python Programming Language community in Japan will be having our first
PyCon JP on August 27th at the Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology
(産業技術大学院大学) in Tokyo’s Shinagawa Seaside.
PyCon JP started in the aftermath of PyCon APAC ...
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Kay 1.1 Released!
The Kay team just just released Kay 1.1! I want to thank Takashi Matsuo,
Nickolas Daskalou, Tasuku Suenaga, and Yosuke Suzuki for their hard work on this
release.
Kay is a web framework made specifically for Google App Engine. The basic
design...
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An introduction to the Tipfy Framework for App Engine
(This post is the English translation of the Dec. 24th edition of the Python
Web Framework Advent Calendar 2010. Other posts
can be found on that page, though they will be in Japanese)
I usually use the kay framework for
App Engine development as...
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Google App Engine 1.4.0 Released!!
Google App Engine 1.4.0 was just released and has lots of interesting new features. Channel API, “Always On” (reserved instances), Improvements to background processing, Warm up requests, and Metadata queries just to name the big ones.
Channel AP...
