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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

#182 PSF Survey is out!

Topics covered in this episode: PSF / JetBrains Survey Hypermodern Python Open AI Jukebox The Curious Case of Python's Context Manager nbstripout Write ups for The 2020 Python Language Summit Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/182...

May 19, 202026 minEp. 182

#181 It's time to interrogate your Python code

Topics covered in this episode: interrogate: checks your code base for missing docstrings Streamlit: Turn Python Scripts into Beautiful ML Tools Why You Should Document Your Tests HoloViz project A cool new progress bar for python Awesome Panel Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/181...

May 14, 202031 minEp. 181

#180 Transactional file IO with Python and safer

Topics covered in this episode: Ubuntu 20.04 is out ! Working with warnings in Python Safer file writer codespell Austin profiler Numbers in Python Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/180...

May 08, 202033 minEp. 180

#179 Guido van Rossum drops in on Python Bytes

Topics covered in this episode: New governance model for the Django project missingno Announcements from the language summit. Codes of Conduct and Enforcement Myths about Indentation Parsers and LibCST Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/179...

Apr 30, 202045 minEp. 179

#178 Build a PyPI package from a Jupyter notebook

Topics covered in this episode: Pandas-Bokeh Stop naming your python modules “utils” From 1 to 10,000 test cases in under an hour: A beginner's guide to property-based testing Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/178...

Apr 22, 202038 minEp. 178

#177 Coding is 90% Google searching or is it?

Topics covered in this episode: Announcing a new Sponsorship Program for Python Packaging energy-usage Coding is 90% Google Searching — A Brief Note for Beginners Using WSL to Build a Python Development Environment on Windows A Pythonic Guide to SOLID Design Principles Types for Python HTTP APIs: An Instagram Story Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/177...

Apr 16, 202042 minEp. 177

#176 How python implements super long integers

Topics covered in this episode: Quick chat about COVID 19 What the heck is pyproject.toml? Awesome Python Bytes Awesome List Publishing package distribution releases using GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows Rich text for terminals psutil: Cross-platform lib for process and system monitoring in Python How python implements super long integers Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/176...

Apr 07, 202030 minEp. 176

#175 Python string theory with superstring.py

Topics covered in this episode: Quick chat about COVID 19. Dictionary Merging and Updating in Python 3.9 superstring New pip resolver to roll out this year Why does all() return True if the iterable is empty? pytest-monitor Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/175...

Apr 01, 202033 minEp. 175

#174 Happy developers use Python 3

Topics covered in this episode: Quick chat about COVID 19. Documentation as a way to build Community The Django Speed Handbook: making a Django app faster dacite: simplifies creation of data classes from dictionaries How we retired Python 2 and improved developer happiness The Troublesome Active Record Pattern Types at the edges in Python Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/174...

Mar 26, 202048 minEp. 174

#173 Your test deserves a fluent flavor

Topics covered in this episode: Advanced usage of Python requests - timeouts, retries, hooks Fluent Assertions Python in GitHub Actions VCR.py 8 Coolest Python Programming Language Features Bento Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/173...

Mar 19, 202029 minEp. 173

#172 Floating high above the web with Helium

Topics covered in this episode: Python in Production Hynek How to cheat at unit tests with pytest and Black Goodbye Microservices: From 100s of problem children to 1 superstar Helium makes Selenium-Python 50% easier uncertainties package Personalize your python prompt Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/172...

Mar 13, 202033 minEp. 172

#171 Chilled out Python decorators with PEP 614

Topics covered in this episode: PEP 614 – Relaxing Grammar Restrictions on Decorators Create a macOS Menu Bar App with Python (Pomodoro Timer) Conditional Coverage Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/171...

Mar 05, 202035 minEp. 171

#170 Visualize this: Visualizing Python's visualization ecosystem

Topics covered in this episode: Python visualization graph Awesome Zen of Python Jupytext Tour of Python Itertools justpy.io Modularity for Maintenance Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/170...

Feb 25, 202029 minEp. 170

#169 Jupyter Notebooks natively on your iPad

Topics covered in this episode: D-Tale Carnets BeeWare Podium pytest-mock-resources How James Bennet is testing in 2020 Python and PyQt: Building a GUI Desktop Calculator Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/169...

Feb 19, 202026 minEp. 169

#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
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