We’ve been gone a while. Here’s our excuse for being silent for a month: PyCon, PyCon, something something security. Come listen to how the conference looked like from our perspective! And whatever you do, DO NOT upgrade to Python 3.13.4.
## Timestamps
(00:00:00) INTRO
(00:01:06) PART 1: LANGUAGE SUMMIT
(00:04:47) A bit about the Summit talks
(00:06:19) Is free-threading happening?
(00:09:20) Łukasz and his favorite discussion item at the Summit
(00:13:38) Find actual competent coverage of the Summit on the PSF blog
(00:14:17) PART 2: PYCON TALK HIGHLIGHTS
(00:14:33) Cory Doctorow's opening keynote
(00:18:17) Brandt Bucher's talk on JIT challenges
(00:28:28) Lysandros and Nathan talk about community adoption of free-threading
(00:36:23) Lynn Root's keynote
(00:37:46) PyXL: Python-oriented chip
(00:39:47) Łukasz and his tutorial on WebGL with PyScript
(00:47:58) A new bet appears!
(00:48:14) Zoom, Enhance the Banana
(00:54:11) Watch out, Łukasz is talking about audio again
(01:02:42) Ivona and Pablo talk about remote code execution as a service
(01:05:44) Core Python sprints after the conference
(01:12:48) PART 3: PR OF THE WEEK
(01:13:00) tarfile security fixes
(01:19:13) Pablo's PR: strncmp considered harmful
(01:25:36) PART 4: WHAT'S GOING ON IN CPYTHON
(01:26:06) compression.zstd lands
(01:28:01) concurrent.futures → asyncio.Future transfer 4X faster
(01:29:14) Bugfix: PyCFuncPtr_call no longer uses locks
(01:30:13) Some curiosities
(01:34:14) OUTRO
