Do you or your team maintain a large Python 2 code base? Would you like to move to Python 3 but there's just too much in place keeping you on legacy Python? Then you will definitely enjoy this story from Jason Fried. He created a grassroots campaign to move Facebook's …
How can we make learning Python and teaching Python more real for students, especially younger students? The BBC in the UK had a great idea. Make it more physically real with actual devices. That's where Nicholas Tollervey got involved. He helped bring the BBC Micro:bit and Python to millions of …
Python is taking over much of the development world as it quickly is becoming one of the, or simply the most widely used programming languages. But that does not mean that Python is without its weaknesses. In my mind, there are three such weaknesses: #1 GUIs applications, #2 Native, general …
Join me and Doug Farrell as we discuss his career and what he's up to at Shutterfly. You'll learn about the Python stack he's using to work with, not just with bits and bytes, but physical devices on a production line for creating all sorts of picturesque items. You'll also …
Listeners often tell me one of the really valuable aspects of this podcast is the packages and libraries that they learn about and start using in their projects from guests and myself. On this episode, I've invited Brian Okken (my co-host over on Python Bytes) to take this to 11. …
The Python core developers recently released Python 3.7 and are now busy planning what's coming in 3.8. That makes right now a great time to dig into what was included in Python 3.7 and what's on deck for the next great release of CPython. This week we have Anthony Shaw …
The Python Language Summit is a yearly gathering of around 40 or 50 developers from CPython, other Python implementations, and related projects. It is held on the first day of PyCon. Many of the decisions driving Python forward are made at this summit. On this episode you'll meet Mariatta Wijaya, …
You know you should be testing your code right? How do you know whether it's *well* tested? Are you testing the right things? If you're not using code coverage, chances are is you're guessing. But you don't need to guess. Just grab coverage.py maintained by our guest this week, Ned …
Flask is now 8 years old and until recently had gone along pretty steady state. It had been hanging around at version 0.11 and 0.12 for some time. After a year-long effort, the web framework has now been updated to Flask 1.0. David Lord is here to share the big …
The Python landscape is changing pretty dramatically. Python's rapid growth over the past 5 years means it doesn't look the same as the early days. On this episode, we take a deep look inside the state of the Python ecosystem with Ewa Jodlowska and Dmitry Filippov. They lead the PSF …
The discipline of network engineering is quickly moving towards a world where it's as much programming and automation as it is packets and ports. Join me and Hank Preston to discuss what parts of Python are important for network engineers to learn. **Links from the show** **Hank on Twitter** : …
Not everyone comes to software development and Python through 4-year computer science programs at universities. This episode highlights one alternative journey into Python. Over the course of two episodes, you will meet people who started in other industries and now make Python part of their daily experience. Some of them …
Not everyone comes to software development and Python through 4-year computer science programs at universities. This episode highlights one alternative journey into Python. Over the course of two episodes, you will meet people who started in other industries and now make Python part of their daily experience. Some of them …
Quick, name some ways to make your Python code faster. Did you think PyPy, the JIT-compiled version of Python? Maybe some async and await parallelism? How about Cython where you write in Python-esc language that compiles to machine instructions? I'm here to add a new one to your vocabulary. Nuitka. …
Jupyter notebooks have transformed the way many developers and data scientists do their jobs. They offer a platform to not just explore but to explain data and computation. But how are they *really* being used? Adam Rule is here to describe his research (and Ph.D. dissertation) which analyzed over 1M …
This past week we have had a passing of the reigns for Python leadership. Guido van Rossum who created and has been shepherding the language for 30 years has stepped down from decision making around the Python language. Join Carol Willing and Brett Cannon both long time core developers and …
Corey Schafer has been building his YouTube channel of tutorials for many years. He recently made the big shift into making this hobby project his full time job. You'll hear about how Corey made that transition, what it takes to "go pro", and even a little bit about the similarities …
Do you write Python software that uses the network, opens files, or accepts user input? Of course you do! That's what almost all software does. But these actions can let bad actors exploit mistakes and oversights we've made to compromise our systems. Python is safer than some languages, but there …
Ever since Python 3.5 was released, we've had a really powerful way to write I/O bound async code using the async and await keywords. On this episode, you'll Nathaniel Smith who wrote the Trio async framework that significantly simplifies complex coordinating operations using async and await. **Links from the show** …
We have evolved from, "It builds, ship it!" to continuous integration where every check-in is automatically verified by something like Travis CI. Taking that further, some people are using continuous delivery. This means, once a check-in is validated by the CI system, it's deployed -- automatically. There are many moving …