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Python Bytes

Michael Kennedy and Brian Okkenpythonbytes.fm
Python Bytes is a weekly podcast hosted by Michael Kennedy and Brian Okken. The show is a short discussion on the headlines and noteworthy news in the Python, developer, and data science space.
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Episodes

#168 Race your donkey car with Python

Topics covered in this episode: donkeycar RIP Pipenv: Tried Too Hard. Do what you need with pip-tools. str.casefold() Virtualenv Property-based tests for the Python standard library (and builtins) PyCon US Tutorial Schedule & Registration Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/168...

Feb 11, 202034 minEp. 168

#167 Cheating at Kaggle and uWSGI in prod

Topics covered in this episode: clize: Turn functions into command-line interfaces How to cheat at Kaggle AI contests * Configuring uWSGI for Production Deployment * * Thinc: A functional take on deep learning, compatible with Tensorflow, PyTorch, and MXNet * * pandas-vet * * NumPy beginner documentation * Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/167...

Feb 03, 202029 minEp. 167

#166 Misunderstanding software clocks and time

Topics covered in this episode: Amazon is now offering quantum computing as a service A quick-and-dirty guide on how to install packages for Python Say No to the no code movement What I learned going from prison to Python A real QUICK → Qt5 based gUI generator for ClicK Falsehoods programmers believe about time Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/166...

Jan 27, 202028 minEp. 166

#165 Ranges as dictionary keys - oh my!

Topics covered in this episode: iterators, generators, coroutines requests-toolbelt Pandas Validation qtpy pylightxl python-ranges Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/165...

Jan 21, 202029 minEp. 165

#164 Use type hints to build your next CLI app

Topics covered in this episode: * Data driven journalism via * cjworkbench remi: A Platform-independent Python GUI library for your applications. Typer Effectively using Matplotlib Django Simple Task PyPI Stats at pypistats.org Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/164...

Jan 16, 202029 minEp. 164

#163 Meditations on the Zen of Python

Topics covered in this episode: Meditations on the Zen of Python * nginx raided by Russian police * I'm not feeling the async pressure codetiming from Real Python Making Python Programs Blazingly Fast LocalStack Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/163...

Jan 09, 202024 minEp. 163

#161 Sloppy Python can mean fast answers!

Topics covered in this episode: Larry Hastings - Solve Your Problem With Sloppy Python - PyCon 2018 Introduction to ASGI: Emergence of an Async Python Web Ecosystem Python Insights Assembly Building a Standalone GPS Logger with CircuitPython using @Adafruit and particle hardware 10 reasons python is good to learn Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/161...

Dec 18, 201930 minEp. 161

#160 Your JSON shall be streamed

Topics covered in this episode: Type Hints for Busy Python Programmers auto-py-to-exe How to document Python code with Sphinx Snek is a cross-platform PowerShell module for integrating with Python How to use Pandas to access databases ijson — Iterative JSON parser with a standard Python iterator interface Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/160...

Dec 12, 201929 minEp. 160

#159 Brian's PR is merged, the src will flow

Topics covered in this episode: Final type flit 2 Pint 8 great pytest plugins * 11 new web frameworks * Raise Better Exceptions in Python Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/159...

Dec 03, 201933 minEp. 159

#158 There's a bounty on your open-source bugs!

Topics covered in this episode: GitHub launches 'Security Lab' to help secure open source ecosystem pybit.es now has some test challenges pyhttptest - a command-line tool for HTTP tests over RESTful APIs xarray Animated SVG Terminals Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/158...

Nov 27, 201926 minEp. 158

#157 Oh hai Pandas, hold my hand?

Topics covered in this episode: pydantic Coverage.py 5.0 beta 1 adds context support * PSF is seeking developers for paid contract improving pip * dovpanda - Directions OVer PANDAs removestar pytest-quarantine : Save the list of failing tests, so that they can be automatically marked as expected failures on future test runs. Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/157...

Nov 20, 201924 minEp. 157

#156 All the programming LOLs

Topics covered in this episode: * Why You Should Use * python -m pip Visual Studio Online: Web-Based IDE & Collaborative Code Editor Black 19.10b0 Released — stable release coming soon Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/156...

Nov 15, 201928 minEp. 156

#155 Guido van Rossum retires

Topics covered in this episode: Guido retires SeleniumBase Reimplementing a Solaris command in Python gained 17x performance improvement from C 20 useful Python tips and tricks you should know * Complexity Waterfall * Plynth Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/155...

Nov 06, 201932 minEp. 155

#154 Code, frozen in carbon, on display for all

Topics covered in this episode: Lesser Known Coding Fonts Django Admin Handbook Your Guide to the CPython Source Code Six Django template tags not often used in tutorials Beautiful code snippets with Carbon Researchers find bug in Python script may have affected hundreds of studies Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/154...

Oct 29, 201932 minEp. 154

#153 Auto format my Python please!

Topics covered in this episode: Building a Python C Extension Module What’s New in Python 3.8 - docs.python.org UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is warning developers of the risks of sticking with Python 2.7, particularly for library writers Pythonic News Deep Learning Workstations, Servers, Laptops, and GPU Cloud * Auto formatters for Python * Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/153...

Oct 23, 201927 minEp. 153

#152 You have 35 million lines of Python 2, now what?

Topics covered in this episode: JPMorgan’s Athena Has 35 Million Lines of Python 2 Code, and Won’t Be Updated to Python 3 in Time organize PEP 589 – TypedDict: Type Hints for Dictionaries With a Fixed Set of Keys gazpacho How pip install Works daily pandas tricks Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/152...

Oct 15, 201926 minEp. 152

#151 Certified! It works on my machine

Topics covered in this episode: Python alternative to Docker How to support open-source software and stay sane MATLAB vs Python: Why and How to Make the Switch Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/151...

Oct 10, 201926 minEp. 151

#150 Winning the Python software interview

Topics covered in this episode: How to Stand Out in a Python Coding Interview The Python Software Foundation has updated its Code of Conduct The Interview Study Guide For Software Engineers re-assert : “show where your regex match assertion failed” awesome-python-typing Developer Advocacy: Frequently Asked Questions Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/150...

Oct 05, 201924 minEp. 150

#149 Python's small object allocator and other memory features

Topics covered in this episode: Dropbox: Our journey to type checking 4 million lines of Python Setting Up a Flask Application in Visual Studio Code Multiprocessing vs. Threading in Python: What Every Data Scientist Needs to Know ORM - async ORM Getting Started with APIs Memory management in Python Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/149...

Sep 25, 201937 minEp. 149

#148 The ASGI revolution is upon us!

Topics covered in this episode: Annual Release Cycle for Python - PEP 602 awesome-asgi Asynchronous Django Sunsetting Python 2 Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/148...

Sep 18, 201924 minEp. 148

#147 Mocking out AWS APIs

Topics covered in this episode: rapidtables Quick and dirty mock service with Starlette Mocking out AWS APIs Single Responsibility Principle in Python Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/147...

Sep 11, 201925 minEp. 147

#146 Slay the dragon, learn the Python

Topics covered in this episode: Positional-only arguments in Python django-stubs CodeCombat Four Use Cases for When to Use Celery in a Flask Application pytest-steps docassemble Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/146...

Sep 08, 201924 minEp. 146

#145 The Python 3 “Y2K” problem

Topics covered in this episode: friendly-traceback * Pandas Users Survey * * python3 “Y2K” problem (python3.10 / python4.0) * pypi research * DaPy * python-remote-pdb Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/145...

Aug 31, 201934 minEp. 145

#144 Are you mocking me? It won't work!

Topics covered in this episode: Why your mock doesn’t work The nonlocal statement in Python twitter.com/brettsky/status/1163860672762933249 pre-commit now has a quick start guide Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/144...

Aug 23, 201926 minEp. 144

#143 Spike the robot, powered by Python!

Topics covered in this episode: Keynote: Python 2020 - Łukasz Langa - PyLondinium19 My oh my, flake8-mypy and pytest-mypy Python 3 at Mozilla Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/143...

Aug 14, 201933 minEp. 143

#142 There's a bandit in the Python space

Topics covered in this episode: Writing sustainable Python scripts Static Analysis and Bandit jupyter-black Report Generation workflow with papermill, jupyter, rclone, nbconvert, … How — and why — you should use Python Generators Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/142...

Aug 06, 201931 minEp. 142

#141 Debugging with f-strings coming in Python 3.8

Topics covered in this episode: Debugging with f-strings in Python 3.8 Am I "real" software developer yet? De bugging with local variables and snoop New home for Humans The Backwards Commercial License Switching Python Parsers? Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/141...

Jul 29, 201931 minEp. 141

#140 Becoming a 10x Developer (sorta)

Topics covered in this episode: Becoming a 10x Developer: 10 ways to be a better teammate quasar & vue.py Regular Expressions 101 python-diskcache The Python Help System Python Architecture Graphs Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/140...

Jul 23, 201925 minEp. 140

#139 f"Yes!" for the f-strings

Topics covered in this episode: Simplify Your Python Developer Environment New fast.ai course: A Code-First Introduction to Natural Language Processing Cloning the human voice Ab(using) pyproject.toml and stuffing pytest.ini and mypy.ini content into it Polyaxon Flynt for f-strings Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/139...

Jul 18, 201939 minEp. 139
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