Nov. 29, 2024

Django News - 2024 Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial Prize awarded to Rachell Calhoun - Nov 29th 2024

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News

2024 Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial Prize awarded to Rachell Calhoun

This year's winner is Rachell Calhoun. Read more about her contributions to Django along with those of her follow nominees.

djangoproject.com

Django 6.x Steering Council Candidate Registration

Registration is open for candidates until December 4, 2024.

djangoproject.com

🏷️ Python Black Friday & Cyber Monday sales (2024)

The seventh annual compilation of Python learning deals compiled by Trey Hunner.

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Django Software Foundation

Django Developers Survey 2024

The annual Django Developers Survey is now live! It should take you about 10 minutes to complete and provides a wealth of information to the Django team and community on how Django is actually being used.

jetbrains.com

DjangoCon Europe 2026 call for organizers completed

The DjangoCon Europe 2026 call for organizers is now over. We’re elated to report we received three viable proposals, a clear improvement over recent years.

djangoproject.com

Updates to Django

Today's 'Updates to Django' is presented by Abigail Afi Gbadago from Djangonaut Space!

Last week we had 10 pull requests merged into Django by 9 different contributors - including a first-time contributor! Congratulations to Caitlin Hogan for having their first commit merged into Django - welcome on board! 🚀

New in Django 5.2

The default mysql encoding has been updated from "utf8"/"utf8mb3" to "utf8mb4".
The new helper simple_block_tag can be used to create custom "block" tags to capture contents as an argument. Special thanks for the long work on this PR 🥳

Django Newsletter

A new simple block tag helper is coming to Django 5.2

Huge congrats to Jake Howard and Natalia Bidart for pushing this over the line!

djangoproject.com

Articles

Squashing Django Migrations Easily

Safely squash Django migrations in long-running projects to optimize performance and maintain migration history integrity using django-model-info

jacklinke.com

I Built a Plugin System for DJ Press

Inspired by Simon Willison's DjangoCon talk on building plugin systems, the project DJ Press now has its own system built from scratch.

.stuartm.nz

The Practical Guide to Scaling Django

Most Django scaling guides focus on theoretical maximums. But real scaling isn't about handling hypothetical millions of users - it's about systematically eliminating bottlenecks as you grow. Here's how to do it right, based on patterns that work in production.

slimsaas.com

GenericForeignKey Deep Filtering

A technique for using Django's GenericForeignKey to implement a kind of deep filtering of a model.

bmispelon.rocks

Django: fix a view using a debugger with breakpoint()

Python’s breakpoint() function opens its debugger, pdb, which pauses the program and allows you to inspect and modify things. Let’s look at an example of using it within a Django view.

adamj.eu

Steering Council 6.x Thoughts

Tim Schilling with some extended thoughts on future members of the Steering Council might accomplish.

better-simple.com

Tutorials

Using GitHub Actions to run a Python script

Tips and code on how to use GitHub Actions to run a Python script.

mechanicalgirl.com

Building a Chat Backend for Wikipedia Articles in Django

A tutorial that walks you through setting up a Django backend for a chat application powered by Wikipedia content to help start you on your chatbot journey.

lincolnloop.com

Podcasts

Django Chat #171: Python Tooling with Hynek Schlawack

Hynek is a core Python contributor, author of the popular attrs library, and an engineer at Variomedia, a Germany-based web hosting company. We discuss Python performance, tooling (especially uv), and more.

djangochat.com