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            June 26, 2016.
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        <p>Linux Mint 17.3 "Rosa" is December 2015 release of the polished and 
widely-used Linux distribution. This Mint release includes both Python 2.7 
and 3.4 by default, but in this tutorial we will download and install the 
latest Python 3.5.1 version to run our Django application. </p>
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            Posted by <a href="/about-author.html">Matt Makai</a> on 
            June 19, 2016.
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        <p><a href="/ubuntu.html">Canonical's Ubuntu 16.04 Long Term Support (LTS)</a> Linux
<a href="/operating-systems.html">operating system</a>, also known as "Xenial Xerus",
was released in April 2016. It is the first Ubuntu release to include 
<a href="/python-2-or-3.html">Python 3</a> instead of Python 2 as its default Python ... (<a href="/blog/python-3-pyramid-gunicorn-ubuntu-1604-xenial-xerus.html">read more</a>)
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            Posted by <a href="/about-author.html">Matt Makai</a> on 
            June 05, 2016.
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        <p>Python applications can 
<a href="/blog/send-sms-text-messages-python.html">easily send SMS</a> 
by using a <a href="/application-programming-interfaces.html">web API</a>. 
Web apps built with the <a href="/bottle.html">Bottle</a> framework can also reply
to incoming text messages by handling inbound HTTP POST webhooks. In
this post we'll ... (<a href="/blog/reply-sms-text-messages-python-bottle.html">read more</a>)
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            June 04, 2016.
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        <p><a href="/bots.html">Bots</a> are a useful way to interact with chat services such as 
<a href="https://slack.com/">Slack</a>. If you have never built a bot before, this 
post provides an easy starter tutorial for combining the 
<a href="https://api.slack.com/">Slack API</a> with Python to create your first bot.</p>
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            Posted by <a href="/about-author.html">Matt Makai</a> on 
            May 30, 2016.
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        <p>Short Message Service (SMS) text messages are 
<a href="/blog/send-sms-text-messages-python.html">easy to send from Python applications</a> 
with a
<a href="/application-programming-interfaces.html">web application programming interface (API)</a>. 
Flask applications can also receive incoming text messages and respond
back to the sender with ... (<a href="/blog/respond-sms-text-messages-python-flask.html">read more</a>)
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        <h2 style="padding-top: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="/blog/install-mysql-ubuntu-1604.html">How to Install and Use MySQL on Ubuntu 16.04</a></h2>
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            Posted by <a href="/about-author.html">Matt Makai</a> on 
            May 28, 2016.
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        <p><a href="/mysql.html">MySQL</a> is a common open source 
<a href="/databases.html">relational database</a> for creating, reading, updating 
and deleting data in <a href="/web-frameworks.html">Python web applications</a>.
Let's learn how to install MySQL on <a href="/ubuntu.html">Ubuntu 16.04</a> and then 
run a few SQL queries within the ... (<a href="/blog/install-mysql-ubuntu-1604.html">read more</a>)
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            May 18, 2016.
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        <p><a href="/postgresql.html">PostgreSQL</a> is a powerful open source 
<a href="/databases.html">relational database</a> frequently used to create, read,
update and delete <a href="/web-frameworks.html">Python web application</a> data.
<a href="http://pythonhosted.org/psycopg2/">Psycopg2</a> is a PostgreSQL database 
driver that serves as a ... (<a href="/blog/postgresql-python-3-psycopg2-ubuntu-1604.html">read more</a>)
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        <h2 style="padding-top: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="/blog/install-redis-use-python-3-ubuntu-1604.html">How to Use Redis with Python 3 and redis-py on Ubuntu 16.04</a></h2>
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            May 16, 2016.
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        <p><a href="http://redis.io">Redis</a> is an in-memory key-value pair 
<a href="/no-sql-datastore.html">NoSQL data store</a> often used 
for <a href="/web-frameworks.html">web application</a> sessions,
transient <a href="/data.html">data</a> and as a broker for 
<a href="/task-queues.html">task queues</a>. redis-py is a common Python code ... (<a href="/blog/install-redis-use-python-3-ubuntu-1604.html">read more</a>)
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            Posted by <a href="/about-author.html">Matt Makai</a> on 
            May 15, 2016.
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        <p>Multimedia Message Service (MMS) picture and video messages are a common 
extension to the Short Message Service (SMS) system for sending text 
messages. Using a 
<a href="/application-programming-interfaces.html">web application programming interface (API)</a>
with Python makes it easy to send MMS messages from a web application or
script. ... (<a href="/blog/send-mms-picture-messages-python.html">read more</a>)
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        <h2 style="padding-top: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="/blog/python-3-bottle-gunicorn-ubuntu-1604-xenial-xerus.html">Configuring Python 3, Bottle and Gunicorn for Development on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS</a></h2>
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            May 13, 2016.
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        <p>The <a href="/ubuntu.html">Ubuntu 16.04 Long Term Support (LTS)</a> Linux
<a href="/operating-systems.html">operating system</a> was released in April 2016.
This latest Ubuntu release is named "Xenial Xerus" and
it is the first Ubuntu release to include <a href="/python-2-or-3.html">Python 3</a>,
instead of Python 2.x, as the default Python ... (<a href="/blog/python-3-bottle-gunicorn-ubuntu-1604-xenial-xerus.html">read more</a>)
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        <p>Short Message Service (SMS) text messages are ubiquitous for communication
all over the world. It is easy to send SMS text messages from a 
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<a href="/application-programming-interfaces.html">web application programming interface (API)</a>. 
Let's take a look at the tools we need ... (<a href="/blog/send-sms-text-messages-python.html">read more</a>)
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        <h2 style="padding-top: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="/blog/python-3-flask-green-unicorn-ubuntu-1604-xenial-xerus.html">How to set up Python 3, Flask and Green Unicorn on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS</a></h2>
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        <p><a href="/ubuntu.html">Ubuntu</a>'s latest Long Term Support (LTS) 
<a href="/operating-systems.html">operating system</a> was released last month, in 
April 2016. The 16.04 update for Ubuntu is known as "Xenial Xerus" and
it's the first Ubuntu release to include <a href="/python-2-or-3.html">Python 3</a> 
as the default Python ... (<a href="/blog/python-3-flask-green-unicorn-ubuntu-1604-xenial-xerus.html">read more</a>)
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        <h2 style="padding-top: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="/blog/python-3-django-gunicorn-ubuntu-1604-xenial-xerus.html">Setting up Python 3, Django and Gunicorn on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS</a></h2>
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            Posted by <a href="/about-author.html">Matt Makai</a> on 
            May 09, 2016.
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        <p><a href="/ubuntu.html">Ubuntu</a> released the newest Long Term Support (LTS) 
version of its <a href="/operating-systems.html">operating system</a> in April 2016. 
The update brings Ubuntu to version 16.04 and its latest code name is 
"Xenial Xerus". 16.04 is the first Ubuntu release to include 
<a href="/python-2-or-3.html">Python 3</a> as ... (<a href="/blog/python-3-django-gunicorn-ubuntu-1604-xenial-xerus.html">read more</a>)
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        <p>Full Stack Python began way back in December 2012 when I started writing
the initial <a href="/deployment.html">deployment</a>, <a href="/servers.html">server</a>, 
operating system, web server and WSGI server pages. Since then, the pages
have expanded out into a 
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