Posts by Frank Wiles

How to smartly keep a set of Django ORM objects in order for drag-n-drop like situations.

django-test-plus has long been a useful helper library with Django. Now we've added some simple pytest fixture support to make it even more useful!

Ran into a weird error with coverage, pytest, and Travis today and wanted to document an easy fix when you get a 'import file mistmatch' error from pip packages you do not control.

Smaller and faster Python 3.6.x images for you to take advantage of.

Sometimes you just need to run a command on a remote host with ssh and Python 3 without any real fuss. Here is the simplest way we have found to do that and retrieve the output. 

Python's atexit handler is one of those things people should use more often.  Some developers aren't even aware that it exists and that makes me sad. 

Getting your configuration from the system environment for your Python and/or Django apps is often the best way to provide security and flexibility. envparse makes it easy. 

Our recap of the Django's 10th Birthday Party

Django is turning 10 years old this summer and we're throwing it a birthday party in the city where it was born.

Improve your Django Tests using django-test-plus' helpful additions to the standard Django TestCase