Chris McAvoy is happy to be behind the Django curve:

…Django is an awesome moving target. As I sort of jump in and jump out on a couple month interrupt, I love these little surprises. I’ve known there was a Django testing framework for a while now, I just haven’t used it. Now with little-mini-project, I’ll have a reason to use it.

Cool.

Elliotte Rusty Harold gives Ten predictions for XML in 2007:

2007 is shaping up to be the most exciting year since the community drove off the XML highway into the Web services swamp half a decade ago. XQuery, Atom, Atom Publishing Protocol (APP), XProc, and GRRDL are all promising new power … 2007 will be a very good year to work with XML.

Read the whole thing.

Elixir seems to be generating quite a bit of buzz:

Elixir is a declarative layer on top of SQLAlchemy. It is a fairly thin wrapper, which provides the ability to define model objects following the Active Record design pattern, and using a DSL syntax similar to that of the Ruby on Rails ActiveRecord system.

Some background on the project is available as well.

Via: Simon Willison’s Weblog

Titus brown has some info on the upcoming PyCon Web Panel… and some good links about hosting panels in general.

Via: Blue Sky on Mars

Soaplib is “an easy to use Python library … for writing and calling soap web services.”

Make some pretty call graphs with pycallgraph.

Quoth the Dee team:

Inspired by The Third Manifesto, a book by Chris Date and Hugh Darwen, we’re putting forward an implementation of a truly relational language using Python. We will address two problems…

I’m not sure I completely understand, but I’m sure it’s cool. Heh.

Need to interface with Amazon web services? Check out Boto.

Brevé is “a Python template engine that is designed to be clean and elegant with minimal syntax.”

According to the site, it’s inspired by Nevow Stan. There’s also a Brevé vs Myghty comparison.

Parallel Python (aka PP) is, “a python module which provides mechanism for parallel execution of python code on SMP (systems with multiple processors or cores) and clusters.”