Django News - 201 Created - Last call for DjangoCon US 2023 tickets! - Oct 13th 2023
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News
DjangoCon US kicks off this Monday, October 16th - 18th. Online tickets are still on sale!
If you are attending this year, Jeff, Will, and Catherine will be there. Say hello in person or virtually.
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Updates to Django
Last week we had 14 pull requests merged into Django by 10 different contributors - including 4 first time contributors! Congratulations to ume, Pieter Cardillo Kwok, Denis Rouzaud and Faishal manzar for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!
Features for Django 5.1 are already being accepted!
5.1 will allow template tags to set extra data for templates (#34883 and release note) and
assertContains(), assertNotContains(), and assertInHTML() assertions will now add haystacks to assertion error messages (#34657 and release note).
Next week is DjangoCon US! There are a number of ways you can engage in the conference virtually including get involved in the sprints! You can read about this on the Django forum and sign up.
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Articles
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Events
It’s your first DjangoCon US (or maybe even your first tech conference). Are you concerned about what you should pack?
Tutorials
This tutorial will run through a sample Django project to demonstrate the Django default 404 and 500 pages and how to customize them.
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Videos
All videos from Django Day Copenhagen 2023 are now up and available!
Sarah Boyce's talk on launching the new Djangonaut Space program to help and mentor new contributors to Django.
A talk on the myriad tools available to help teams write clean code and even fix common mistakes for you. Examples include the implementation of black, isort, and ruff.
Podcasts
Paul Everitt is a Python advocate at JetBrains, the maker of PyCharm. We discuss what makes PyCharm a powerful Python IDE, its current “year of Django” focus, and why testing isn’t about eating your vegetables but joy.
Projects
Enable login-by-email with the default User model for your Django project by making auth.User.email unique.
Convert HTML tags to Django static.
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