Archives for 2020

Sun 20 December 2020

• Python: mock the current date and time

Mon 14 December 2020

• Introducing django-version-checks

Thu 10 December 2020

• Introducing django-linear-migrations

Sat 28 November 2020

• Cyber Monday discount for Speed Up Your Django Tests

Thu 15 October 2020

• A Django REST API in a Single File

Tue 13 October 2020

• How to Mock Environment Variables in pytest

• Python: mock environment variables with unittest

Mon 12 October 2020

• Django: prevent unintended data modification with django-read-only

Mon 07 September 2020

• Django: unit test a management command

Sat 05 September 2020

• Django: what happens when you run manage.py test?

Thu 03 September 2020

• Django: Bonus documentation sites

Tue 01 September 2020

• Django and the N+1 Queries Problem

Mon 10 August 2020

• A Guide to Python Lambda Functions

Wed 29 July 2020

• Backporting a Django ORM Feature with Database Instrumentation

Tue 28 July 2020

• How to Fix a PytestCollectionWarning about WebTest’s TestApp Class

Mon 27 July 2020

• Django: Modernize index definitions with zero downtime

Thu 23 July 2020

• How to Make Always-Installed Django Database Instrumentation

Tue 21 July 2020

• How to Use Django’s Parallel Testing on macOS With Python 3.8+

Sat 18 July 2020

• Fun with GPT-3

Tue 14 July 2020

• Disable Instrumentation Packages during Tests

Mon 13 July 2020

• Announcing a Regional Discount for “Speed Up Your Django Tests”

Thu 02 July 2020

• Better Python Decorators with wrapt

Mon 29 June 2020

• Why does Python raise ModuleNotFoundError when modifying Django’s INSTALLED_APPS?

Sun 28 June 2020

• Django: Add a .well-known URL

Fri 26 June 2020

• How to Check if Python’s Output Buffering Is Enabled

Sun 21 June 2020

• Python: fix SyntaxWarning: list indices must be integers or slices

Thu 18 June 2020

• Python: fix SyntaxWarning: assertion is always true

Wed 17 June 2020

• Python: fix SyntaxWarning: '<type>' object is not subscriptable

Tue 16 June 2020

• Python: fix SyntaxWarning: '<type>' object is not callable

Mon 15 June 2020

• How to Unit Test a Django Form

Thu 11 June 2020

• Avoid Hardcoding IDs in Your Tests

Mon 08 June 2020

• How to Check Multiple Tables Are Empty in SQL

Wed 03 June 2020

• Introducing time-machine, a New Python Library for Mocking the Current Time

Wed 20 May 2020

• The Fast Way to Test Django transaction.on_commit() Callbacks

Mon 18 May 2020

• “Speed Up Your Django Tests” is Out Now

Thu 14 May 2020

• How to Check the Running Django Command

Mon 04 May 2020

• Book Announcement: Speed Up Your Django Tests

Wed 08 April 2020

• Django Security Headers Hall of Fame

Thu 02 April 2020

• Maintaining Multiple Python Projects With myrepos

Wed 01 April 2020

• How to Combine Two Python Decorators

Wed 25 March 2020

• Using Django Check Constraints to Ensure Only One Field Is Set

Mon 23 March 2020

• Setting Python’s Decimal Context for All Threads

Mon 16 March 2020

• CloudFront Updates Are No Longer Soul Destroying

• Use Pathlib in Your Django Settings File

Tue 10 March 2020

• Using Django Check Constraints for the Sum of Percentage Fields

Mon 09 March 2020

• Detect if Your Tests Are Running on a CI System

Fri 06 March 2020

• SQL’s Implicit Type Conversion

Mon 02 March 2020

• How to Make Django Redirect WWW to Your Bare Domain

Tue 25 February 2020

• Use ‘python -m pip’ Everywhere

Mon 24 February 2020

• Django: disallow auto-named Django migrations

Tue 18 February 2020

• Django: safely include data for JavaScript in templates

Thu 13 February 2020

• Converting my CloudFront Lambda@Edge Function from JavaScript to Python

Mon 10 February 2020

• How to add a robots.txt to your Django site

Fri 07 February 2020

• Entering a Flaky Context Manager in Python

Tue 04 February 2020

• How to use PyMySQL with Django

Mon 03 February 2020

• Common Issues Using Celery (And Other Task Queues)

Sun 02 February 2020

• Scoring A+ for SSL Labs on My Cloudfront-Hosted Static Website

Wed 29 January 2020

• Git: compare generated files before and after changes with git diff

Mon 27 January 2020

• Moving to Django 3.0’s Field.choices Enumeration Types

Wed 22 January 2020

• Django’s Field Choices Don’t Constrain Your Data

Tue 21 January 2020

• Python: fix SyntaxWarning: "is" with a literal

Mon 20 January 2020

• Django Quiz 4

Sat 18 January 2020

• A Git Check for Missing Commits From a Remote

Fri 17 January 2020

• Simplify Your If Statements That Return Booleans

Mon 13 January 2020

• Make Django Tests Always Rebuild the Database if It Exists

Tue 07 January 2020

• Feature Checking versus Version Checking