Are you interested in deploying your Python project everywhere? This week on the show, Russell Keith-Magee, founder and maintainer of the BeeWare project, returns. Russell shares recent updates to Briefcase, a tool that converts a Python application into native installers on macOS, Windows, Linux, and mobile devices.

We cover how Anaconda hired him last year to work full-time on the BeeWare project. He shares how this has helped him focus his efforts and move the project forward.

We also discuss his recent talk at DjangoCon US 2022 on how to turn your website into an app (and why maybe you shouldn’t). Russell details the problems of converting from the Web to a mobile platform. We also contrast WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) with the tools that his team works on.

Course Spotlight: Managing Attributes With Python’s property()

In this video course, you’ll learn how to create managed attributes, also known as properties, using Python’s property() in your custom classes.

Topics:

00:00:00 – Introduction
00:02:06 – BeeWare project update and open-source funding
00:06:47 – What are BeeWare and Briefcase?
00:08:19 – Toga GUI and contributions
00:10:47 – Pace of the project now
00:12:47 – PEP 517 and binary packages with C or Rust
00:17:29 – WASM and Briefcase for Web
00:22:22 – Sponsor: InfluxData
00:23:10 – How to turn your Website into an App - Talk
00:28:14 – Bridging libraries that access platform hardware
00:40:56 – Video Course Spotlight
00:42:27 – WASI - WebAssembly System Interface
00:48:18 – Do you need an app or a website?
00:54:23 – Getting started with BeeWare
01:00:06 – What to do first if interested in contributing?
01:02:33 – Channels for the project
01:04:55 – Upcoming conference talks
01:05:26 – What are you excited about in the world of Python?
01:06:42 – What do you want to learn next?
01:09:28 – How can people follow your work online?
01:10:10 – Thanks and goodbye

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