Topic

Python

A collection of 21 issues

Django 2 and Python 3

I just saw this tweet which I actually found a little discouraging. As of March 2017, only 12% of PyPI downloads were initiated by Python3. As an avid user of Python3 this anti-Python3 attitude continues to baffle me. Hell, even Flask now recommends using Python3. It's been quite a while

A simple Python3 Lambda function on AWS with an API Gateway

As will be apparent from my previous post I've been playing around with AWS's Lambda service. I'm loving these 'serverless' offerings - they make simple sites just so cheap and easy to host and you don't have to be worried about an entire back-end system just because of one annoying

Getting Lambda to run Python3 scripts with dependencies

I'm currently rebuilding my Dad's website with the intent of adding an order form so he can sell his wine (it's not live yet though). I've taken the opportunity to try and get my head around VueJS which is currently holding up very well and I now have fantasies of

Choosing a stack

I've been in a lot of discussions lately about 'stacks'. Agencies, for good reason, want to limit the stacks they use and for good reason. It means that projects are more predictable to work on and one can develop templates etc to move things in the right direction. I thought

Django's getting old

I've been playing around with Django for years. Back when I was a PHP developer that was learning Python it was great. It works the way you expect an MVC framework to work so if you're coming from another language with similar frameworks it's great. For the past year though

Wagtail

So there I was, moaning about the current state of CSMs when I attended the Django mini-conf before PyConAu an saw Adam Brenecki's presentation: Comparing Wagtail, Django CMS and Mezzanine. For whatever reason Wagtail really appealed to me. It had a really nice interface and seemed to do a good

Setting up PostgreSQL and Django on OS X

I've been keen to start using PostgreSQL for far too long now. Everyone raves about it and MySQL has lost it's open source cred since being acquired by Oracle. But I was quickly starting to believe that the reason people were raving about it (particularly Python and Ruby folk) was

Podcast Feeds in Django

I've been talking to Terry Johal about getting our podcast up and running again. Naturally my action plan was to rebuild the website. It was original built in CakePHP but has a few little bugs I've never got around to fixing so I thought I'd just rebuild it in Django.

Testing File uploads in Flask

I was recently writing Flask integration tests for a form that had a file upload parameter. As it turns out, is isn't as straight forward as I had thought it would be. A basic file upload test might look like this: def test_logo(self): data = dict(logo=(io.BytesIO(

Flask-WTF tricks

I use Flask-WTF's What the Form module for most of my Flask projects as it takes care of things like csrf tokens and so on which is a nice piece of mind. I have recently come across a couple of really powerful features that have been hiding from me in