The Python Show

Today’s episode of The Python Show Podcast has my very special guest, Marlene Mhangami. Marlene is a cofounder of Zimbopy and works closely with multiple Python organizations in Zimbabwe. She is also a former vice-chair of the Python Software Foundation and a former chair of PyCon AfricaYou can follow Marlene on Twitter or on her YouTube channel.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

For this week’s episode of The Python Show Podcast, I have invited Mariya from the Python Simplified YouTube channel to come and talk to us about content creation and Python on YouTube.Mariya has more than 187,000 subscribers and a passion for Python and data science. Listen to the full episode now! Get full access to The Python Show at www.pythonshow.com/subscribe

In the 10th episode of The Python Show Podcast, we welcome Bob Belderbos to our show.Bob co-founded PyBites, a blog, code challenge, and mentoring website. This episode covers the following topics:* The PyBites origin story* The PyBites Developer Mindset / Python Mentoring Program* Entrepreneurship * and more! Get full access to The Python Show at www.pythonshow.com/subscribe

Al Sweigart, author of 'Automating the Boring Stuff with Python,' shares his insights on making programming accessible and engaging. He discusses the humorous challenges he faced while writing and how practical learning trumps theoretical knowledge. The conversation shifts to the impact of AI in programming, highlighting its benefits and drawbacks. Al also dives into the journey of his recursive book and the importance of critical thinking in verifying AI-generated content, urging listeners to navigate this evolving landscape thoughtfully.

Today’s special guest is Misra Turp. In this episode, we discuss machine learning, AI and how it impacts teaching and learning. We also chat about her journey into programming and data science and whether you need to return to school to get into data science.Misra teaches data science and machine learning topics on her YouTube Channel. Misra also has a Hands-on Data Science Course. You can get 50% off that course using the following code: PSHOW23 (only good for the first 50 buyers).You can also follow Misra on Twitter. Be sure to check out Misra’s website to see her other teaching materials. Get full access to The Python Show at www.pythonshow.com/subscribe

Today’s episode is all about the Robyn package, a new Python web framework written in Rust.The author of Robyn, Sanskar Jethi (@sansyrox), is here to talk all about it in addition to Starfyre, which allows you to build reactive frontends using only Python.Listen in and learn all about how Sanskar got started with Python and what inspired him to build these amazing Python packages! Get full access to The Python Show at www.pythonshow.com/subscribe

Doug Farrell is the author of “The Well-Grounded Python Developer” for Manning Publishing and a contributor/writer for Real Python.In this episode, we talk about* How programming has changed over the past few decades* What a well-grounded Python developer is* The process of authoring a book* and more!You can catch up with Doug at any of the following sites:* Twitter* GitHub* Personal Website Get full access to The Python Show at www.pythonshow.com/subscribe

Tarek Ziadé is the original creator of Flake8, a super popular linter that combines pep8 and PyFlakes.Tarek has also recently created the perf8, a tool for measuring your Python code performance. You can read more about the project in the article: Perf8: Performance metrics for Python.If you’d like to see what else Tarek is up to, you can find him on Mastodon. Get full access to The Python Show at www.pythonshow.com/subscribe

Today’s special guest is Stephen Gruppetta (@s_gruppetta_ct), author of The Python Coding Book. In this podcast, we discuss Stephen’s coding journey, teaching, books, and course ideas.Check out Stephen’s newsletter: The Python Coding Stack!You can also check out Stephen’s home page for more on what he’s up to. Get full access to The Python Show at www.pythonshow.com/subscribe

In today’s episode, I talk about many of the amazing Python graphical user interface (GUI) frameworks that you have available. I focus primarily on desktop GUI frameworks.Here is a list of links to the ones mentioned in this episode:* Tkinter* wxPython* PyQt* Qt for Python (AKA PySide)* PyGTK (Note: no longer actively developed)* DearPyGUISimpler GUIs* CustomTkinter* PySimpleGUI* EasyGUIMobile GUI frameworks* Kivy* Toga* PyQtHTML-Based Desktop GUIs* NiceGUI* FlexxText-Base GUIs* Textual Get full access to The Python Show at www.pythonshow.com/subscribe