#414: Because we are not monsters

Topics covered in this episode:

• New project to shorten django-admin to django because we are not monsters
• django-unicorn: The magical reactive component framework for Django
• Testing some tidbits
• The State of Python 2024 article
• Extras
• Joke

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Brian #1: New project to shorten django-admin to django because we are not monsters

• Jeff Tripplet has created django-cli-no-admin to shorten django-admin to just django.
• “One of the biggest mysteries in Django is why I have to run django-admin from my terminal instead of just running django. Confusingly, django-admin has nothing to do with Django’s admin app.”
• Instead of typing things like: django-admin startproject mysite projectname
• We can type the shorter: django startproject mysite projectname
• I love this kind of developer speedup / comfort improvements
• And yes, Jeff wants Django to eventually include this as the default way to run the command line utilities.

Michael #2: django-unicorn: The magical reactive component framework for Django

• Add modern site functionality: Quickly add in simple interactions to regular Django templates without learning a new templating language.
• Skip the JavaScript build tools
• No API required: Skip creating a bunch of serializers and just use Django.

Brian #3: Testing some tidbits

• Ned Batchelder
• Different ways to test to see if a string has only 0 or 1 in it.
• And also, a way to check all the different ways to make sure they work.
• Fun post, and I learned about
  • cleandoc - a way to strip leading blank space and maintain code block indentation
    • I usually use textwrap.dedent()
  • partition - splitting strings based on a substring
  • Using | to pass imports to eval() - I don't use eval much.
• However, no pytest!
• Here’s a way to check all this with pytest:
  • Testing some tidbits with pytest

Michael #4: The State of Python 2024 article

1. Python usage with other languages drops as general adoption grows
2. 41% of Python developers have under 2 years of experience
3. Python learning expands through diverse channels
4. The Python 2 vs. 3 divide is in the distant past
5. Flask, Django, and FastAPI remain top Python web frameworks
6. Most Python web apps run on hyperscale clouds
7. Containers over VMs over hardware
8. uv takes Python packaging by storm

Extras

Brian:

• More Django: Dracula Theme for Django Admin

Michael:

• Zen Browser update
• Office refresh
• Transcripts (in some players)

Joke:

• Volkswagen, passing all the tests