On 27 January 2024, the Bulawayo Python community held its inaugural meetup to improve project collaboration. Organizers sought to transition from a joke-filled WhatsApp group to more empathetic, constructive engagements, with plans for regular meetups. Thirty participants gathered at Bulawayo TechHub, discussing and contributing to an open-source social networking project.
Setting up a Django super user may be a requirement in your test setup code. The commands used to create users are interactive by default and unfortunately do not allow you to pass in the user’s password as an argument or a flag on the command line. This is a security measure, but it isn’t …
In this post I’ll show you how to encrypt and decrypt strings using the AWS Encryption SDK and AWS KMS. Step 1: Install the AWS SDK for Python and the Encryption SDK You’ll need boto3 to create a Master Key programmatically and the aws-encryption-sdk for encrypting and decrypting data. Step 2: Add AWS credentials to …
This post explains how to install and setup nginx as a reverse proxy to gunicorn and web server to serve static files in Django.
A brief introduction into the Django Template Language.
We all use PyPI – here’s a way to ensure we always have access.
Summary of the recent Python Bulawayo Meetup
This is a short article about how to get a password from the terminal without echoing it back to the user as they type.
The requests library is one of the most popular Python libraries available. In this article, you’ll learn how to use requests to fetch resources from the web and also to interact with websites.
An interview with Ewa Jodlowska, Executive Director of the Python Software Foundation. We talk about the PSF, insights from the Python Developer Survey and more.