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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

#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, 2019•27 min•Ep 153•Transcript available on Metacast

#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, 2019•26 min•Ep 152•Transcript available on Metacast

#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, 2019•26 min•Ep 151•Transcript available on Metacast

#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, 2019•24 min•Ep 150•Transcript available on Metacast

#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, 2019•37 min•Ep 149•Transcript available on Metacast

#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, 2019•24 min•Ep 148•Transcript available on Metacast

#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, 2019•25 min•Ep 147•Transcript available on Metacast

#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, 2019•24 min•Ep 146•Transcript available on Metacast

#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, 2019•34 min•Ep 145•Transcript available on Metacast

#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, 2019•26 min•Ep 144•Transcript available on Metacast

#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, 2019•33 min•Ep 143•Transcript available on Metacast

#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, 2019•31 min•Ep 142•Transcript available on Metacast

#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, 2019•31 min•Ep 141•Transcript available on Metacast

#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, 2019•25 min•Ep 140•Transcript available on Metacast

#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, 2019•39 min•Ep 139•Transcript available on Metacast

#138 Will PyOxidizer weld shut one of Python's major gaps?

Topics covered in this episode: flake8-comprehensions PyOxidizer (again) Using changedir to avoid the need for src WebRTC and ORTC implementation for Python using asyncio Apprise - Push Notifications that work with just about every platform! Websauna web framework Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/138...

Jul 08, 2019•30 min•Ep 138•Transcript available on Metacast

#137 Advanced Python testing and big-time diffs

Topics covered in this episode: Comparing the Same Project in Rust, Haskell, C++, Python, Scala and OCaml MongoDB 4.2 Deep Difference and search of any Python object/data Advanced Python Testing Understanding Python's del Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/137...

Jul 02, 2019•28 min•Ep 137•Transcript available on Metacast

#136 A Python kernel rather than cleaning the batteries?

Topics covered in this episode: Voilà! Toward a “Kernel Python” Use _main _.py The CPython Bytecode Compiler is Dumb You can play with EdgeDB now, maybe 16 Python libraries that helped a healthcare startup grow Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/136...

Jun 25, 2019•30 min•Ep 136•Transcript available on Metacast

#135 macOS deprecates Python 2, will stop shipping it (eventually)

Topics covered in this episode: Why do Python lists let you += a tuple, when you can’t + a tuple? macOS deprecates Python 2, will stop shipping it (eventually) Pythonic Ways to Use Dictionaries Things you are probably not using in Python 3 But Should Have a time machine? C++ would get the Python 2 → 3 treatment too Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/135...

Jun 20, 2019•32 min•Ep 135•Transcript available on Metacast

#134 Python proves Mercury is the closest planet to Earth

Topics covered in this episode: Three scientists publish a paper proving that Mercury, not Venus, is the closest planet to Earth. using Python Github semantics flake8-black Python Preview for VS Code Create and Publish a Python Package with Poetry Pointers in Python: What's the Point? Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/134...

Jun 12, 2019•21 min•Ep 134•Transcript available on Metacast

#133 Github sponsors - The model open source has been waiting for?

Topics covered in this episode: Python built-ins worth learning Github sponsors and match Build a REST API in 30 minutes with Django REST Framework Dependabot has been acquired by GitHub spoof “ New features planned for Python 4.0 ” BlackSheep web framework Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/133...

Jun 05, 2019•27 min•Ep 133•Transcript available on Metacast

#132 Algorithms as objects

Topics covered in this episode: History of CircuitPython Algorithms as objects pico-pytest An Introduction to Cython, the Secret Python Extension with Superpowers Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/132...

May 30, 2019•30 min•Ep 132•Transcript available on Metacast

#131 Python 3 has issues (over on GitHub)

Topics covered in this episode: * PEP 581 (Using GitHub issues for CPython) is accepted * Things you’re probably not using in Python 3 – but should The Python Arcade Library Teaching a kid to code with Pygame Zero Follow up on GIL / PEP 554 Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/131...

May 21, 2019•27 min•Ep 131•Transcript available on Metacast

#130 Python.exe now shipping with Windows 10

Topics covered in this episode: - pgcli - Papermill - Python Language Summit - Python in Windows 10 Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/130...

May 14, 2019•24 min•Ep 130•Transcript available on Metacast

#129 Maintaining a Python Project when it’s not your job

Topics covered in this episode: * Maintaining a Python Project when it’s not your job * * Python in 1994 * * Textblob * Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/129

May 06, 2019•17 min•Ep 129•Transcript available on Metacast

#128 Will the GIL be obsolete with PEP 554?

Topics covered in this episode: Solving Algorithmic Problems in Python with pytest * DepHell -- project management for Python * Dask Animations with Matplotlib PEP 554 -- Multiple Interpreters in the Stdlib Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/128...

May 02, 2019•23 min•Ep 128•Transcript available on Metacast

#127 That Python code is on fire!

Topics covered in this episode: inline_python (for rust) * Requests3: Under Way! * * 🔥 Pyflame : *A Ptracing Profiler For Python * flit + src * cheat.sh Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/127...

Apr 25, 2019•25 min•Ep 127•Transcript available on Metacast

#126 WebAssembly comes to Python

Topics covered in this episode: Python Used to Take Photo of Black Hole Wasmer - Python Library for executing WebAssembly binaries Cooked Input JetBrains and PyCharm officially collaborating with Anaconda Building a Serverless IoT Solution with Python Azure Functions and SignalR multiprocessing.shared_memory — Provides shared memory for direct access across processes Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/126...

Apr 19, 2019•30 min•Ep 126•Transcript available on Metacast

#125 Will you conquer the deadlock empire?

Topics covered in this episode: My How and Why: pyproject.toml & the 'src' Project Structure The Deadlock Empire: Slay dragons, master concurrency! Cog 3.0 StackOverflow 2019 Developer Survey Results Cuv’ner “ A commanding view of your test-coverage" Mobile apps launched Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/125...

Apr 13, 2019•32 min•Ep 125•Transcript available on Metacast

#124 This is not the None you're looking for

Topics covered in this episode: [play:0:29] pytest 4.4.0 [play:3:47] requests-async [play:7:10] Reasons why PyPI should not be a service [play:12:35] * Jupyter in the cloud * [play:16:57] Jupyter Notebook tutorials [play:19:28] * Unique sentinel values, identity checks, and when to use object() instead of None * Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/124...

Apr 05, 2019•28 min•Ep 124•Transcript available on Metacast