The Python Show

The 25th episode of The Python Show Podcast kicks off 2024 with special guest Kevin McAleer (@kevsmac), robot maker extraordinaire.Kevin teaches how to create robots with Raspberry Pis, microcontrollers, Python and more on his YouTube channel and website. In this episode, we cover the following:* Kevin’s journey to robotics and Python* Kevin’s robots* Why he does content creation* What kinds of robots Kevin makes* Challenges associated with creating robots* Creating a web server with a Raspberry Pi cluster* and more!The Python Show is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to The Python Show at www.pythonshow.com/subscribe

In this week’s episode, I have a special guest, Christopher Trudeau, on the show.Christopher is an entrepreneur who trains people in Python, Django, and more. We discuss his work for Real Python, Talk Python, and many other projects.Christopher’s Links* Christopher’s company* Christopher’s Real Python profile* Talk Python Django course* Django In Action* Django-htmxThe Python Show is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to The Python Show at www.pythonshow.com/subscribe

Explore the creation of 'Ruff', a fast Python linter in Rust that now formats code using Black rules. Learn about the journey of Ruff, Python vs Rust, the future of the project, and challenges faced. Dive into the transition from maintainer to consumer and the complexities of code formatting. Discover the symbiotic relationship between Python and Rust for enhanced development.

You may know Adam from all his work around the Django web framework. If you head to the Python Package Index (PyPI), you will see that Adam has made or contributed to more than 80 projects!Adam recently released a new book called Boost Your Git DXListen in as we chat about:* Book writing* Django* Python* Git* and much more!Links* Boost Your Django DX* Boost Your Git DX* Speed Up Your Django Tests* Adam Johnson’s website Get full access to The Python Show at www.pythonshow.com/subscribe

Python has many remarkable web frameworks to choose from. Sanic is another excellent web framework and one of the first to support async programming.Sanic is built to be able to build fast and run fast.In this episode, we talk to Adam Hopkins, one of the maintainers of the Sanic web framework.We discuss the following topics:* Sanic * Other Python web frameworks* Msgspec* Mayim - The NOT ORM Python HydratorOther Links* Adam Hopkin’s Sanic book* Adam Hopkin’s personal website  Get full access to The Python Show at www.pythonshow.com/subscribe

In this week’s episode of The Python Show, we welcome Steve Dower as our guest.Steve is a core CPython developer who works primarily on Python for Windows. He was also involved with the Python in Excel project.We talk about how Windows development has improved for Python programmers. Steve talks about many new improvements to the Python language on Windows. We also talk about some of the cool things that are happening with Python in Excel. Get full access to The Python Show at www.pythonshow.com/subscribe

Creating content can be challenging. In this podcast, Mike Driscoll talks a lot about content creation, especially around creating long-form content, such as books.You will learn some of Mike’s strategies and why he self-publishes versus going with a publishing company. You will also learn the pros and cons of indie vs pro publishing.Support the Show* Follow The Python Show on Twitter / X* Follow Mike Driscoll on Twitter / X* Python Books by Mike Driscoll* Learn more about Python on Mouse vs Python* Take Python Courses on Teach Me Python Get full access to The Python Show at www.pythonshow.com/subscribe

This week, we talk about Natural Language Processing and machine learning with our special guest, Ines Montani.Ines is the co-founder and CEO of Explosion. Links* spaCy: https://spacy.io* Prodigy: - https://prodigy.ai * Prodigy Teams (our upcoming product): https://prodigy.ai/teams* spaCy’s config system powered by Pydantic: https://explosion.ai/blog/spacy-design-concepts* Textual UI for Prodigy by Vincent Warmerdam: https://github.com/koaning/prodigy-tui* Large Language Models: From Prototype to Production (EuroPython keynote): * The Guardian case study: https://explosion.ai/blog/guardian* Using LLMs for more efficient annotation: https://prodi.gy/features/large-language-models* spacy-llm – Integrating LLMs into structured NLP pipelines: https://github.com/explosion/spacy-llm Get full access to The Python Show at www.pythonshow.com/subscribe

Do you work in cybersecurity or are you interested in doing so? Then you might be interested in listening to today’s episode with Mark Baggett.Mark is a senior Python instructor for SANS where he teaches several courses such as SEC573: Automating Information Security with Python and SEC673: Advanced Information Security Automation with PythonYou can connect with Mark on LinkedIn.Support the Show* Follow The Python Show on Twitter / X* Follow Mike Driscoll on Twitter / X* Python Books by Mike Driscoll* Learn more about Python on Mouse vs Python* Take Python Courses on Teach Me Python Get full access to The Python Show at www.pythonshow.com/subscribe

Python 3.12 is coming out next week, so I spoke with Pablo Galindo Salgado this week. Pablo is a member of the Python Steering Council and a core Python developer. He was also the Python 3.10/3.11 release manager. Pablo also helped create Memray, a memory profiler for PythonYou can follow Pablo on Twitter or sponsor his open-source work on GitHub.Links* Follow The Python Show on Twitter / X* Follow Mike Driscoll on Twitter / X* Python Books by Mike Driscoll* Learn more about Python on Mouse vs Python* Take Python Courses on Teach Me Python Get full access to The Python Show at www.pythonshow.com/subscribe