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Python Bytes

Michael Kennedy and Brian Okken•pythonbytes.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.

Episodes

#423 Traveling the Python Universe

Topics covered in this episode: pysqlscribe A map of Python Rust, C++, and Python trends in jobs on Hacker News (February 2025) The features of Python's help() function Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course Patreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org / @mkennedy.codes (bsky) Brian: @brianokken@fosstodon.org / @brianokken.bsky.social Show: @pythonbytes@fos...

Mar 10, 2025•27 min•Ep 423•Transcript available on Metacast

#422 You need 4 spaces

Topics covered in this episode: My 2025 uv-based Python Project Layout for Production Apps aiolimiter A peek into a possible future of Python in the browser Reloadium Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course Patreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org / @mkennedy.codes (bsky) Brian: @brianokken@fosstodon.org / @brianokken.bsky.social Show: @pythonbytes@fosst...

Mar 03, 2025•33 min•Ep 422•Transcript available on Metacast

#421 22 years old

Topics covered in this episode: httpdbg PyPI Now Supports iOS and Android Wheels for Mobile Python Development Arcade Game Platform goes 3.0 PEP 765 – Disallow return/break/continue that exit a finally block Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course Patreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org / @mkennedy.codes (bsky) Brian: @brianokken@fosstodon.org / @briano...

Feb 24, 2025•23 min•Ep 421•Transcript available on Metacast

#420 90% Done in 50% of the Available Time

Topics covered in this episode: PEP 772 – Packaging governance process Official Django MongoDB Backend Now Available in Public Preview Developer Philosophy Python 3.13.2 released Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course Patreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org / @mkennedy.codes (bsky) Brian: @brianokken@fosstodon.org / @brianokken.bsky.social Show: @pytho...

Feb 17, 2025•28 min•Ep 420•Transcript available on Metacast

#419 Is your back end popular?

Topics covered in this episode: content-types package for better MIME types/Content-Type Wagtail 6.4 Build It Yourself Build backend popularity over time Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course Patreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org / @mkennedy.codes (bsky) Brian: @brianokken@fosstodon.org / @brianokken.bsky.social Show: @pythonbytes@fosstodon.org / @p...

Feb 04, 2025•30 min•Ep 419•Transcript available on Metacast

#418 I'm a tea pot

Topics covered in this episode: In memoriam: Michael Foord 1974-2025 Valkey (Redis Replacement) 30 best practices for software development and testing mimetype.io Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course Patreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org / @mkennedy.codes (bsky) Brian: @brianokken@fosstodon.org / @brianokken.bsky.social Show: @pythonbytes@fosstodon...

Jan 27, 2025•20 min•Ep 418•Transcript available on Metacast

#417 Bugs hide from the light

Topics covered in this episode: LLM Catcher On PyPI Quarantine process RESPX Unpacking kwargs with custom objects Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course Patreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org / @mkennedy.codes (bsky) Brian: @brianokken@fosstodon.org / @brianokken.bsky.social Show: @pythonbytes@fosstodon.org / @pythonbytes.fm (bsky) Join us on YouTube ...

Jan 21, 2025•24 min•Ep 417•Transcript available on Metacast

#416 A Ghostly Episode

Topics covered in this episode: Terminals & Shells Winloop : An Alternative library for uvloop compatibility with windows Ruff & uv uv-secure Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course Patreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org / @mkennedy.codes (bsky) Brian: @brianokken@fosstodon.org / @brianokken.bsky.social Show: @pythonbytes@fosstodon.org / @pytho...

Jan 13, 2025•44 min•Ep 416•Transcript available on Metacast

#415 Just put the fries in the bag bro

Topics covered in this episode: dbos-transact-py Typed Python in 2024: Well adopted, yet usability challenges persist RightTyper Lazy self-installing Python scripts with uv Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course Patreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org / @mkennedy.codes (bsky) Brian: @brianokken@fosstodon.org / @brianokken.bsky.social Show: @pythonbytes...

Dec 23, 2024•33 min•Ep 415•Transcript available on Metacast

#414 Because we are not monsters

Topics covered in this episode: New project to shorten django-admin to django because we are not monsters django-unicorn : The magical reactive component framework for Django Testing some tidbits The State of Python 2024 article Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course Patreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org / @mkennedy.codes (bsky) Brian: @brianokken@fo...

Dec 16, 2024•30 min•Ep 414•Transcript available on Metacast

#413 python-build-standalone finds a home

Topics covered in this episode: jiter A new home for python-build-standalone moka-py uv: An In-Depth Guide Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course Patreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org / @mkennedy.codes (bsky) Brian: @brianokken@fosstodon.org / @brianokken.bsky.social Show: @pythonbytes@fosstodon.org / @pythonbytes.fm (bsky) Join us on YouTube at pyth...

Dec 09, 2024•31 min•Ep 413•Transcript available on Metacast

#412 Closing the loop

Topics covered in this episode: Loop targets asyncstdlib Bagels: TUI Expense Tracker rloop: An AsyncIO event loop implemented in Rust Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course Patreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org / @mkennedy.codes (bsky) Brian: @brianokken@fosstodon.org / @brianokken.bsky.social Show: @pythonbytes@fosstodon.org / @pythonbytes .fm (bsky...

Dec 02, 2024•26 min•Ep 412•Transcript available on Metacast

#411 TLS Client: Hello <<guitar solo>>

Topics covered in this episode: Talk Python rewritten in Quart PyPI now supports digital attestations Django Rusty Templates PEP 639 is now supported by PYPI Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/411...

Nov 25, 2024•40 min•Ep 411•Transcript available on Metacast

#410 Entering the Django core

Topics covered in this episode: Thoughts on Django’s Core futurepool Don't return named tuples in new APIs Ziglang: Migrating from AWS to Self-Hosting Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/410...

Nov 18, 2024•31 min•Ep 410•Transcript available on Metacast

#409 We've moved to Hetzner write-up

Topics covered in this episode: terminal-tree posting: The API client that lives in your terminal Extra, extra, extra UV does everything or enough that I'm not sure what else it needs to do Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/409...

Nov 14, 2024•35 min•Ep 409•Transcript available on Metacast

#408 python-preference only-managed 3.13t

Topics covered in this episode: GitHub action security: zizmor Python is now the top language on GitHub Python 3.13, what didn't make the headlines PyCon US 2025 Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/408...

Nov 04, 2024•31 min•Ep 408•Transcript available on Metacast

#407 Back to the future, destination 3.14

Topics covered in this episode: Python 3.14.0 alpha 1 is now available uv supports dependency groups dive: A tool for exploring each layer in a docker image pytest-metadata Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/407...

Oct 28, 2024•28 min•Ep 407•Transcript available on Metacast

#406 What's on Django TV tonight?

Topics covered in this episode: Open Source Pledge Jeff Triplet's DjangoTV PEP 735 – Dependency Groups in pyproject.toml livereload Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/406...

Oct 21, 2024•25 min•Ep 406•Transcript available on Metacast

#405 Oh Really?

Topics covered in this episode: Briefer: Dashboards and notebooks in a single place Introduction to programming with Python setup-uv HTML for people Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/405...

Oct 14, 2024•23 min•Ep 405•Transcript available on Metacast

#404 The Lost Episode

Topics covered in this episode: Python 3.13.0 released Oct 7 PEP 759 – External Wheel Hosting pytest-freethreaded pytest-edit Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/404...

Oct 07, 2024•31 min•Ep 404•Transcript available on Metacast

#403 A machine learning algorithm walks into a bar…

Topics covered in this episode: uv under discussion on Mastodon erdantic: Entity Relationship Diagrams Extra, Extra, Extra Django Extra, Extra, Extra Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/403...

Sep 30, 2024•25 min•Ep 403•Transcript available on Metacast

#402 How to monetize your blog

Topics covered in this episode: Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) narwhals : extremely lightweight compatibility layer between dataframes Microsoft wants Three Mile Island to fuel its AI power needs zsh-in-docker Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/402...

Sep 23, 2024•33 min•Ep 402•Transcript available on Metacast

#401 We must replace uWSGI with something else

Topics covered in this episode: “ We must replace uwsgi by something else ” Let’s build and optimize a Rust extension for Python Fake recruiter coding tests target devs with malicious Python packages Monthly PSF Board Office Hours Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/401...

Sep 17, 2024•31 min•Ep 401•Transcript available on Metacast

#400 Celebrating episode 400

Topics covered in this episode: Python 3.13.0RC2, 3.12.6, 3.11.10, 3.10.15, 3.9.20, and 3.8.20 are now available! Docker images using uv's python 10 years of sustainable open source - Read the Docs humanize Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/400...

Sep 09, 2024•29 min•Ep 400•Transcript available on Metacast

#399 C will watch you in silence

Topics covered in this episode: Why I Still Use Python Virtual Environments in Docker Python Developer Survey Results Anaconda Code add-in for Microsoft Excel Disabling Scheduled Dependency Updates Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/399...

Sep 03, 2024•43 min•Ep 399•Transcript available on Metacast

#398 Open source makes you rich? (and other myths)

Topics covered in this episode: Open Source Myths uv 0.3.0 and all the excitement Top pytest Plugins A comparison of hosts / providers for Python serverless functions (aka Faas) Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/398...

Aug 26, 2024•42 min•Ep 398•Transcript available on Metacast

#397 So many PyCon videos

Topics covered in this episode: pyawaitable Annotated area charts with plotnine DeltaDB PyCon US 2024 Recap + Videos are up Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/397...

Aug 20, 2024•22 min•Ep 397•Transcript available on Metacast

#396 uv-ing your way to Python

Topics covered in this episode: uv venv --python & uv python Python 3.12.5 released Compile and use dependencies for multiple Python versions in Tox Catalog of Dark Patterns Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/396...

Aug 13, 2024•32 min•Ep 396•Transcript available on Metacast

#395 pythont compatible packages

Topics covered in this episode: py-free-threading.github.io Python’s Supportive and Welcoming Environment is Tightly Coupled to Its Progress Status pages for sites ! PEP 751 – A file format to list Python dependencies for installation reproducibility Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/395...

Aug 06, 2024•29 min•Ep 395•Transcript available on Metacast

#394 Python is easy now?

Topics covered in this episode: Python is easy now Trying out free-threaded Python on macOS Module itertools overview uptime-kuma Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/394...

Jul 30, 2024•29 min•Ep 394•Transcript available on Metacast