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How to Use Serializers in the Django Python Web Framework Serialization transforms data into a format that can be stored or transmitted and then reconstructs it for use. There are some quick-and-dirty ways to serialize data in pure Python, but you often need to perform more complex actions during the serialization process, like validating data. The Django REST Framework has some particularly robust and...

Never Forget Your Password With This Python Encryption Algorithm Share your passwords safely with friends and family, even if you don’t trust a couple of them, just as an ancient and wise king well versed in Python once did. MOSHE ZADKA

3 Python Templating Languages You Should (Probably) Never Use “Python has been around for a long time. In that time, deep in the corners of its system, it has accumulated some almost forgotten templating languages that are well worth poking at. Like cute koalas on top of a eucalyptus tree, happy in their ecological niche, and sometimes as dangerous to work with, these are...

What I Learned Going From Prison to Python How open source programming can offer opportunities after incarceration. SHADEED WALLACE-STEPTER

How to Write a Python Web API With Pyramid and Cornice Using Pyramid and Cornice to build and document scalable RESTful web services. MOSHE ZADKA

Prioritizing Simplicity in Your Python Code This is part of a series about the Zen of Python. This article focuses on the third and fourth principles: simplicity and complexity. MOSHE ZADKA

How to Document Python Code With Sphinx A quick tutorial on documenting your Python project with the Sphinx documentation generator and tox for build automation. MOSHE ZADKA

8 Great pytest Plugins “One of the best aspects of the popular Python testing tool is its robust ecosystem. Here are eight of the best pytest plugins available.” OPENSOURCE.COM • Shared by Python Bytes FM

Pylint: Making Your Python Code Consistent How to configure the Pylint code linter to avoid arguing about code complexity. MOSHE ZADKA

Analyzing the Stack Overflow Survey With Python and Pandas Do your own data science exploration and analysis on the annual developer survey’s dataset. MOSHE ZADKA

Format Python However You Like With Black Quick overview of the Black code formatter, one of my favorite developer productivity tools. MOSHE ZADKA

Getting Started With Mercurial for Version Control Super short article to show you the basics of Mercurial, a distributed version control system written in Python. MOSHE ZADKA

Be Your Own Certificate Authority How to create a simple, internal CA for your microservice architecture or integration testing—with Python. MOSHE ZADKA

Parallel Computation in Python With Dask Dask is a library that scales Python computation to multiple cores or multiple machines. Setups running Dask on thousands of machines are not unheard of. This short article gives you a couple of usage examples. MOSHE ZADKA

10 Python Image Manipulation Tools Nice overview of Python libraries that provide an easy and intuitive way to transform images and make sense of the underlying data. PARUL PANDEY