Python, Django, and Channels (Changelog Interviews #229)

Django core contributor Andrew Godwin joins the show to tell us all about Python and Django. If you’ve ever wondered why people love Python, what Django’s virtues are as a web framework, or how Django Channels measure up to Phoenix’s Channels and Rails’ Action Cable, this is the show for you. Also: Andrew’s take on funding and sustaining open source efforts.

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Featuring:

• Andrew Godwin – Website, GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• This episode started on Ping


• Django creators: Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Simon Willison


• Python love: The Zen of Python


• Python love: Great Docs – Requests as example


• Jerod suggests RFC #5: Read/Write the Docs with Eric Holscher


• Virtues: The Django admin site


• Virtues: GeoDjango


• Wikipedia has a list of well-known sites using Django


• Andrew’s baby: Django Channels


• Getting started with Django


• Django South - consistent, easy-to-use and database-agnostic migrations for Django applications.


• If sustainability is interesting to you, check out Request for Commits

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