What goes into making video courses at Real Python? How should you build an installable Django application? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder’s Weekly articles and projects.

This week, the Real Python Podcast is experiencing several firsts. We recorded a show in front of a live audience for the very first time, and it happened in Dublin, Ireland—a place neither of us had visited before. I also got to meet Christopher Trudeau in person for the first time.

We’re sharing that live recording from the conference in this episode. We discuss how we create video courses at Real Python, and Christopher talks about his tutorial on how to write an installable Django application.

We also share a few summaries of the talks from the conference and projects from the Django community, including a news roundup, how decisions are made inside the Django Foundation, ways you can help with reviews, using the Django ORM with Marimo notebooks, maintaining a data-oriented project, how to get foreign keys horribly wrong, a project for simple deployment, and a project for adding extra buttons inside the Django Admin.

We would like to thank the audience members from Ireland who heard about DjangoCon by listening to the podcast. Thank you for attending the conference and for taking the time to say hello. We also appreciate those who asked us insightful questions at the end of the show.

We enjoyed exploring Dublin and recording the show in front of such a welcoming audience. We learned a ton from all the great talks given at the conference and made some new connections for future interviews.

This episode is sponsored by AMD.

Course Spotlight: How to Set Up a Django Project

In this course, you’ll learn the necessary steps that you’ll need to take to set up a new Django project. You’ll learn the basic setup for any new Django project, which needs to happen before programming the specific functionality of your project.

Topics:

00:00:00 – Introduction
00:03:59 – PEP 770 – Improving measurability of Python packages with Software Bill-of-Materials
00:04:22 – PEP 736 – Shorthand syntax for keyword arguments at invocation
00:04:46 – PEP 661 – Sentinel Values
00:05:21 – Pydantic v2.11 Released
00:05:41 – How We Build Video Courses at Real Python
00:17:17 – Sponsor: AMD
00:17:56 – How to Write an Installable Django App
00:22:21 – Attendees from Ireland who heard about the conference from us
00:23:09 – Django needs you! (to do code review)
00:24:12 – How we make decisions in Django
00:26:07 – Marimo: Sharing the joys of the Django ORM with Python Notebooks
00:27:30 – Steering Council Introduction
00:28:17 – Video Course Spotlight
00:29:45 – Data-Oriented Django Drei
00:31:04 – How to get Foreign Keys horribly wrong in Django
00:32:17 – Converting integer fields to bigint using Django migrations at scale
00:33:17 – django-simple-deploy
00:34:57 – django-admin-extra-buttons
00:37:51 – What goes into creating the podcast?
00:44:04 – How does RP decide what Learning Paths to create?
00:48:30 – Python background when starting with a framework
00:54:46 – Django getting started resources at Real Python
00:55:34 – Thanks and goodbye

News:

PEP 770 – Improving measurability of Python packages with Software Bill-of-Materials (Accepted)
PEP 736 – Shorthand syntax for keyword arguments at invocation (Rejected)
PEP 661 – Sentinel Values (Deferred)
Pydantic v2.11 Released

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