Python News Roundup – 5/3

Some really cool posts today, including an article on building your own API and another demonstrating the construction of a template engine.

Python

News

• New release of Cliff (Command Line Interface Formulation Framework) version 1.3.3.

Tutorials, Tools and Articles

• Create a PDF using Bottle and Python as demonstrated on this post, can be used to generate PDFs via web applications.
• Learn how to parse XML with ElementTree.
• Build an API with Python and Flask – I’ll be using this one later for one of my own projects.
• Create Music Algorithmically walks through code to create a song by teaching software some basic patterns.
• Build your own template engine and get a solid understanding of exactly how they work.
• Use iPython? Learn how to customize your notebook with CSS.
• Use Django and Celery to schedule periodic tasks.
• Convert presentation slides to an HTML blog post, complete with images and alt-text.
• Here’s something different, an interactive Gist console. It’s great for not only sharing code, but allowing people to interact with it once it has run.

“This page shows the results of running a Gist downloaded from GitHub[…] Once the code in the Gist has finished running, you can type into the console and investigate its results.”

• Here’s a lecture from PyCon 2013 which does some very in-depth studying of advanced machine learning.
• Greg Reda posted a beyond-the-basics piece on web scraping with Python, including turning that data into a KML map. It’s actually his second post on the subject, the first one is an introduction to web scraping.
• Take a tour of the Twitter library.
• Build a tool to summarize articles (and other text) for you. Great for blogs or even just those who would like to save time and skim.

General Programming

News

• None at this time.

Tutorials, Tools and Articles

• None at this time.