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#84 Vibora web framework: It's fast, async, and means viper
Category: Technology
Duration: 00:26:29
Publish Date: 2018-06-28 03:00:00
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Sponsored by DigitalOcean: pythonbytes.fm/digitalocean

Special guest Nina Zakharenko (@nnja) is a Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft!

Brian #1: Correcting Documentation for a Deployed Python Package

  • "A clever way to release new documentation without releasing a new package that might confuse your user base.”
  • Upload changes to pypi without bumping the version by using post release version numbers: 0.3.2 => 0.3.2.post1
  • Prevent documentation issues by using restview --long-description before uploading. (or use md and really any md converter)

Also:

Nina #2: Flask Mega Tutorial

  • Amazing resource for developers who’d like to learn about building web applications with Flask in Python.
  • Covers important topics like databases, internationalization, and dates and times.
  • Three full sections on deploying your web app using Linux, Heroku, or containers.
  • VS Code IDE has great Flask support.
  • Try Azure with a $200 credit to deploy Flask apps.

Michael #3: 10 common security gotchas in Python and how to avoid them

  • Article by Anthony Shaw (congrats on being a 2018 PSF Fellow)
  • The 10 topics
    • Input injection (see little bobby tables)
    • Use an ORM (db) or shlex module to escape input correctly (process)
    • Parsing XML
    • Assert statements
    • Timing attacks
    • A polluted site-packages or import path
    • Temporary files
    • Using yaml.load
    • Pickles
    • Using the system Python runtime and not patching it
    • Not patching your dependencies

Brian #4: pre-commit “A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks.”

  • Describe pre-commit actions using yaml.
  • Lots of projects already use it, like black.
  • Does the work for you so you don’t have to read up on git commit hooks and such.
  • Test out hooks ahead of time with pre-commit run

Nina #5: Python 3.7 release and PSF board members

  • Python 3.7 has just been released today!
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