Issue 37 - GSOD kicks off, new Python 3.7.9 and 3.6.12, Tailwind CSS v1.7.x, and much more!

News

GSOD 2020 Project - Django Internals / Mentorship

With Google Season of Docs (GSOD) kicking off, Gabby Precious wants to know if you have any specific challenges with Django's contribution documentation?

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Python Insider: Python 3.7.9 and 3.6.12 security updates now available

The lastest security fix rollups for Python 3.7 and Python 3.6 are now available.

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Tailwind CSS v1.7.0 (1.7.1, 1.7.2, and 1.7.3)

The Tailwind CSS v1.7.x release adds a bunch of new features ranging from gradients, background-clip, gap, contents display, font-size letter-spacing, and more interesting new features.

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Events

DjangoCon Australia 2020: Schedule live and tickets on sale 🎟️

Tickets are on sale and the schedule has been released for the 8th DjangoCon AU.

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Articles

Running Django Tests in Github Actions

A nice, concise introduction to how to use GitHub Actions as a CI platform for testing your Django code.

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A deep dive into the official Docker image for Python Itamar Turner-Trauring

Itamar does an excellent job of deconstructing the official Python image for Docker and gives some sound advice and tips along the way.

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Why Internationalization and Localization matters by Nicolle Cysneiros

A practical and concise guide to Internationalization and Localization using Python and Django.

Also check out Nicolle's DjangoCon US 2019 talk, Eita! Why Internationalization and Localization matter

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Django Security Tips

Concise overview of security best practices to keep in mind in Django.

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Stop Using datetime.now! by Haki Benita

A deep-dive into the challenges of managing time.

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RFNM - Request For New Maintainer by Matt Layman

The lifecycle of creating/maintaining an open source package.

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S3 keys are not file paths by Alex Chan

Alex Chan explains why we should treat S3 buckets like an object store instead of a filesystem.

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I Love MDN, or the cult of the free in action

Presented without comment.

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Tutorials

Async Views in Django 3.1 by Jace Medlin

Django 3.1 adds support for async views, middleware, and tests. If you have been asking yourself, "What does this look like?" then this tutorial is for you.

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Sponsored Link

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Podcasts

Running in Production Podcast 44 - An Internal Employee Management App Focused on Schools

In this episode of Running in Production, Chris Goodwin talks about building a platform with Django to manage 15k+ students and 2.5k+ staff members across 29 locations.

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Jobs

Django Developer - Contract - Part Time, Python Software Foundation

The PSF is looking for a part-time Django Developer for the next nine months to support python.org and us.pycon.org.

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Principal Front End Engineer job at Hangar

Hangar Alpha is hiring a Principal Front End Engineer.

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Projects

farridav / django-jazzmin

Jazzy theme for Django

Django jazzmin (Jazzy Admin)

Project Status

This project is being actively maintained, though with a reduced feature set, we are looking for contributors to help maintain and improve the project, please get in touch if you would like to help.

Help needed with:

• Triaging issues
• Frontend fixes and UI improvements
• Testing
• Documentation

Pull requests are welcome, though ive been pre-occupied with other projects lately, so have not been able to review them as quickly as I would like, but im trying to get through them all now, hopefully with some outside help.

Drop-in theme for django admin, that utilises AdminLTE 3 & Bootstrap 4 to make yo' admin look jazzy

Installation

pip install django-jazzmin

Documentation

See Documentation or Test App

Features

• Drop-in admin skin, all configuration optional
• Customisable side menu
• Customisable top menu
• Customisable user menu
• 4 different Change form templates (horizontal tabs, vertical tabs, carousel, collapsible)
• Bootstrap 4 modal…

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maykinmedia / django-admin-index

Change the Django admin index page without too much hassle or visual changes.

Admin Index for Django

Version:	3.1.1
Download:	https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-admin-index
Source:	https://github.com/maykinmedia/django-admin-index
Keywords:	django, admin, dashboard

About

This extension enables you to group, order and customize the Django admin index page without too much hassle or visual changes.

There are 2 concepts: Application groups and Application links. You can create an application group and add any model to it in the Django admin, under Admin index. Whether the models are shown to the user, depends on the regular Django permissions and whether it's registered in the admin.

An application link is simply a URL with a name that you can add to an application group. It shows as a regular Django model.

One final change in the Django admin is the removal of the App lists, that link to a list of models within an App. This concept became obsolete.

Installation

You can install django_admin_index either via the Python Package Index…

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jimfunk / django-postgresql-netfields

Proper INET and CIDR fields for Django running on PostgreSQL

Django PostgreSQL Netfields

This project is an attempt at making proper PostgreSQL net related fields for Django. In Django pre 1.4 the built in IPAddressField does not support IPv6 and uses an inefficient HOST() cast in all lookups. As of 1.4 you can use GenericIPAddressField for IPv6, but the casting problem remains.

In addition to the basic IPAddressField replacement, InetAddressField a CidrAddressField a MACAddressField, and a MACAddress8Field have been added. This library also provides a manager that allows for advanced IP based lookups directly in the ORM.

In Python, the values of the IP address fields are represented as types from the ipaddress module. In Python 2.x, a backport is used. The MAC address fields are represented as EUI types from the netaddr module.

Dependencies

This module requires Django >= 1.11, psycopg2 or psycopg, and netaddr.

Installation

$ pip install django-netfields

Getting started

Make sure…

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fabiocaccamo / django-admin-interface

🦸 ⚡ django's default admin interface with superpowers - customizable themes, popup windows replaced by modals and many other features.

django-admin-interface

django-admin-interface is a modern responsive flat admin interface customizable by the admin itself.

Features

• Beautiful default django-theme
• Themes management and customization (you can customize admin title, logo and colors)
• Responsive
• Related modal (instead of the old popup window)
• Environment name/marker
• Language chooser
• Foldable apps (accordions in the navigation bar)
• Collapsible fieldsets can have their initial state expanded instead of collapsed
• NEW Collapsible inlines
• NEW Tabbed fieldsets and inlines
• NEW List filter removal links
• NEW List filter highlight selected options
• List filter dropdown
• List filter sticky
• Form controls sticky (pagination and save/delete buttons)
• Compatibility / style optimizations for
  • django-ckeditor
  • django-dynamic-raw-id
  • django-json-widget
  • django-modeltranslation
  • django-rangefilter
  • django-streamfield
  • django-tabbed-admin
  • sorl-thumbnail
• Translated in many languages: de, es, fa, fr, it, pl, pt_BR, ru, tr

Installation

• Run pip install django-admin-interface
• Add admin_interface and colorfield to settings.INSTALLED_APPS before django.contrib.admin

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    #...
    "admin_interface"
    "colorfield",
    

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Shameless Plugs

LearnDjango.com

All three books in the series--Django for Beginners, Django for APIs, and Django for Professionals--have been updated to Django 3.1.

learndjango.com