python

Holy crap - XMPP support in AppEngine now! Now AppEngine has a real-time communication infrastructure.

Data import and export to AppEngine using the bulkloader utility.

I see MIT is not teaching intro to CS using Python! Wow (so long having been Lisp/Scheme based).

Looks like a fun course, and you can do most of it online here with access to lecture notes and assignments.

Quoted: This subject is aimed at students with little or no programming experience. It aims to provide students with an understanding of the role computation can play in solving problems. It also aims to help students, regardless of their major, to feel justifiably confident of their ability to write small programs that allow them to accomplish useful goals. The class will use the Python programming language.

Psyco is a Python extension module which can greatly speed up the execution of any Python code.

Django templatetags uses a little bit of magic to import the libraries from all the INSTALLED_APPS list in settings.py.

Here's how to use Django 1.0 from AppEngine.

from google.appengine.dist import use_library
use_library('django', '1.0')

A bunch of code samples (in a variety of languages).

Generic Views in Django

Quoted: Writing Web applications can be monotonous, because we repeat certain patterns again and again. In Django, the most common of these patterns have been abstracted into “generic views” that let you quickly provide common views of an object without actually needing to write any Python code.

Query Performance