If you haven't tried the IPython Notebook yet, you're missing out on a very neat tool. I just started using it a few days ago myself and I regret not having used it much sooner.
I'm currently working on a new Django project where I need to use Amazon's MWS API. I find myself using the Django shell a lot to experiment with the API while building the app. While the IPython shell is quite …
Back in the early days of Docker Compose, when it was still called Fig, you couldn't use ipdb with it to do interactive debugging because the container's service ports weren't exposed when using the run command. This has been fixed by including a ---service-ports option to the docker-compose run command.
Below is a sample usage for one of my Django projects, EZ Price Alerts.
In my detail view, I added import ipdb; ipdb.set_trace() …
Before Docker came along, virtualenv was pretty much the tool of choice for Python developers as it allows you to separate package dependencies for different applications you're working on without having to create separate virtual machines for each one. It worked very well for me.
However, there are still some annoying things the developers will have to deal with. Such things include having to install additional applications and services required by the project such as …
A friend and I started working on this project a few weeks ago as we were talking about the holidays and how useful it would be to build an app to track prices of products on Amazon.com. We know Amazon is very competitive with their pricing and their prices for certain products could change many times a day to match competitors'. Having an app to send you alerts when a product reaches your desired price …
We just finished migrating the database for our Django 1.6 app from MySQL to PostgreSQL. If you have a clean environment this process is as simple as running syncdb and/or migrate to create the tables, truncating the data in those tables, and running the dumpdata and loaddata management commands.
Here are the steps to do this:
CREATE DATABASE dbname OWNER rolename;