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It’s been a year of change at Real Python! The Real Python team has written, edited, curated, illustrated, and produced a mountain of Python articles this year. We also added many new members to the team, updated the site’s features, and created new styles of tutorials and projects. Two members of the Real Python team join us this week, Martin Breuss and Sadie Parker. We wanted to share a year-end wrap-up with a collection of articles and step-by-step projects that showcase what our team created this year. Sadie and Martin help to shepherd articles through the multi-stage editing process. Along with the rest of the team, they make sure these resources impart crucial Python knowledge and provide a thorough didactic experience. We hope you enjoy this review! Programming note, there won’t be an episode next week, but we will be back in January and look forward to bringing you a year full of great guests, articles, and topics. Course Spotlight: Using Pygame to Build an Asteroids Game in Python In this course, you’ll learn the basics of creating powerful web applications with In this course, you’ll build a clone of the Asteroids game in Python using Pygame. Step by step, you’ll add images, input handling, game logic, sounds, and text to your program. Topics: 00:00:00 – Introduction 00:02:24 – Changes at Real Python Over 2021 00:10:11 – Build a Platform Game in Python With Arcade 00:13:40 – Make Your First Python Game: Rock, Paper, Scissors! 00:20:00 – Build a Content Aggregator in Python 00:25:30 – Video Course Spotlight 00:26:45 – Python Inner Functions: What Are They Good For? 00:30:44 – Build a Personal Diary With Django and Python 00:34:14 – Hosting a Django Project on Heroku 00:42:00 – Python & APIs: A Winning Combo for Reading Public Data 00:46:03 – Beautiful Soup: Build a Web Scraper With Python 00:52:25 – Advanced Visual Studio Code for Python Developers 00:59:55 – A Few Special Mentions, Data Science, and More 01:02:33 – Thanks and goodbye Show Links: Build a Platform Game in Python With Arcade – Real Python Make Your First Python Game: Rock, Paper, Scissors! – Real Python Build a Content Aggregator in Python – Real Python Python Inner Functions: What Are They Good For? – Real Python Build a Personal Diary With Django and Python – Real Python Hosting a Django Project on Heroku – Real Python Python & APIs: A Winning Combo for Reading Public Data – Real Python Beautiful Soup: Build a Web Scraper With Python – Real Python Advanced Visual Studio Code for Python Developers – Real Python Python AI: How to Build a Neural Network & Make Predictions – Real Python Stochastic Gradient Descent Algorithm With Python and NumPy – Real Python Prettify Your Data Structures With Pretty Print in Python – Real Python Additional Links: Episode #60: Building a Platform Game With Arcade and Covering Python News Monthly – The Real Python Podcast The Python Arcade Library Arcade: A Primer on the Python Game Framework Rock, Paper, Scissors With Python: A Command Line Game – Video Course Build an Asteroids Game With Python and Pygame – Real Python Godot Engine - Free and open source 2D and 3D game engine Episode #87: Building a Content Aggregator and Working With RSS in Python – The Real Python Podcast Python Inner Functions – Video Course Host Your Django Project on Heroku – Video Course Finding the Perfect Python Code Editor – Video Course Episode #12: Web Scraping in Python: Tools, Techniques, and Legality – The Real Python Podcast Web Scraping With Beautiful Soup and Python – Video Course Level up your Python skills with our expert-led courses: Using Pygame to Build an Asteroids Game in Python Host Your Django Project on Heroku Web Scraping With Beautiful Soup and Python Support the podcast & join our community of Pythonistas

The Python community continually grows, with many users coming from different languages and backgrounds. This week on the show, we talk with developer Hugh Tipping about his Python journey. Hugh is also a member of the Real Python community. Hugh has a background in programming C and Perl and started to use Python in a cyber security job. He explains the way he used Python to search for malware. Hugh provides some suggestions for security packages and tools. Recently Hugh has been working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and using the Boto3 library to automate services and manage credentials. We also discuss his affinity for test-driven development and the use of pytest. Course Spotlight: Host Your Django Project on Heroku In this course, you’ll learn how to host your Django project in the cloud for free and with little hassle. You’ll use Heroku, which takes the burden of infrastructure management off your shoulders. Topics: 00:00:00 – Introduction 00:01:44 – How did you get introduced to Python? 00:05:52 – What types of tasks were you doing in cyber security? 00:10:21 – Why do you think Python is popular for cyber security? 00:14:57 – Python libraries to check for security vulnerabilities 00:18:07 – Sponsor: Cloudsmith 00:18:52 – Boto3 for managing AWS with Python 00:25:21 – What is your background with test-driven development? 00:33:58 – Video Course Spotlight 00:35:22 – Finding Real Python and learning about Python tools 00:41:42 – Getting involved in the Real Python community 00:45:45 – What are excited about in the world of Python? 00:47:32 – What do you want to learn next? 00:53:14 – Thanks and goodbye Show Links: An Introduction to the PyCQA — PyCQA Meta Documentation 1.0 documentation bandit · PyPI safety · PyPI Anchore • Container Security Solutions For DevSecOps Snyk | Develop fast. Stay secure. Single sign-on - Wikipedia Developer guide — Boto3 Docs 1.20.24 documentation AWS Developer Center | Python Tutorials, APIs, SDKs, Docs What is Apache Kafka? | AWS Test-driven development - Wikipedia pytest: helps you write better programs — pytest documentation Effective Python Testing With Pytest – Real Python Build a Content Aggregator in Python – Real Python pyenv/pyenv: Simple Python version management Managing Multiple Python Versions With pyenv – Real Python Poetry - Python dependency management and packaging made easy boltons — boltons 21.0.0 documentation Join the Real Python Community Slack – Real Python Level up your Python skills with our expert-led courses: Test-Driven Development With pytest Start Managing Multiple Python Versions With pyenv Host Your Django Project on Heroku Support the podcast & join our community of Pythonistas

Are you ready to break open the first days of puzzles from the annual Advent of Code challenge? Advent of Code is an advent calendar of twenty-five programming puzzles published each December. Practicing solving puzzles is a great way to build your Python skills. This week on the show, we have previous guest and Real Python author Geir Arne Hjelle to discuss his recent article titled, “Advent of Code: Solving Your Puzzles With Python.” We discuss the history of this online Advent calendar and the creator Eric Wastl. Geir Arne covers techniques to help you organize your code and test when solving the puzzles. He shares additional Python tools for parsing text, managing puzzle data, and visualizing your program output. We also talk about even more places you can practice solving programming puzzles. Course Spotlight: Regular Expressions and Building Regexes in Python In this course, you’ll learn how to perform more complex string pattern matching using regular expressions, or regexes, in Python. You’ll also explore more advanced regex tools and techniques that are available in Python. Topics: 00:00:00 – Introduction 00:02:03 – Geir Arne’s new full-time role at Real Python 00:02:55 – Advent of Code: Solving Your Puzzles With Python 00:09:25 – Using different languages to solve the puzzles 00:12:21 – Different ways to approach the problems 00:16:31 – Sponsor: CData Software 00:17:12 – Organizing your code into reusable functions 00:19:38 – Unique user source data and managing puzzle data 00:24:40 – Additional Python tools that might be useful 00:31:13 – Video Course Spotlight 00:32:42 – Ways to enhance code output and visualization 00:34:50 – Leaderboards 00:37:52 – Real Python office hours discussion of Advent of Code 00:39:30 – Additional resources to practice solving puzzles with Python 00:50:15 – Supporting Advent of Code 00:50:40 – What are you excited about in the world of Python? 00:51:59 – What do you want to learn next? 00:55:52 – Thanks and goodbye Show Links: About Geir Arne Hjelle – Real Python Advent of Code: Solving Your Puzzles With Python – Real Python Advent of Code: Solving Puzzles With Python - Real Python Advent of Code 2021 Python Community Interview With Eric Wastl – Real Python Eric Wastl - Advent of Code: Behind The Scenes - Leetspeak 2019 - YouTube r/adventofcode: Visualizations - reddit.com About - Project Euler Exercism: 55 languages for you to master Codewars - Achieve mastery through coding practice and developer mentorship HackerRank TwilioQuest - Discover your power to change the world with code. Data Puzzles: Sharpen your Data Science skills makersacademy/clmystery: Command Line Murder Mystery Learn VIM while playing a game - VIM Adventures Support AoC - Advent of Code 2021 The Elixir programming language Live stream with José Valim, creator of Elixir, solving AoC - josevalim - Twitch Numerical Elixir (Nx) Level up your Python skills with our expert-led courses: Regular Expressions and Building Regexes in Python Test-Driven Development With pytest Strings and Character Data in Python Support the podcast & join our community of Pythonistas

There seem to be three kinds of Python developers: those unaware of type hints or have no opinion, ones that embrace them, and others who have an allergic reaction at the mention of them. Python is famously a dynamically typed language, but there are advantages to adding type hints to your code. This week on the show, we have Luciano Ramalho to discuss his recent talk titled, “Type hints, protocols, and good sense.” Luciano was not a fan of type hints. He’s only recently come around to their potential with the introduction of protocols in PEP 544. Python has adopted a gradual type system that is optional at all levels. We discuss the advantages, pitfalls, and recent developments around type hinting in Python. We also talk about the second edition of Luciano’s book Fluent Python. He researched type hints in-depth for the book, which led to his recent conference talks on the subject. He also shares his experience with adding opinionated asides to the book in a fun and unique way. Course Spotlight: Python Type Checking In this course, you’ll look at Python type checking. Traditionally, types have been handled by the Python interpreter in a flexible but implicit way. Recent versions of Python allow you to specify explicit type hints that can be used by different tools to help you develop your code more efficiently. Topics: 00:00:00 – Introduction 00:02:02 – Are you interested in creative uses for Python? 00:04:41 – Protocol: The keystone of type hints 00:08:14 – What is duck typing? 00:12:44 – Protocols declaring one method and emerging from a code base 00:17:04 – An example where type hint was too lax 00:21:20 – What if Python always had a strict type system? 00:33:23 – Sponsor: Cloudsmith 00:34:09 – Bias in companies using type hints, and projects that fail checking 00:40:27 – Background on personal use of type hints and added complexity 00:45:07 – Unsuitability of type hints for checking business rules 00:52:30 – Video Course Spotlight 00:53:46 – Fluent Python, 2nd edition 00:56:05 – Who is the intended developer for the book? 00:58:12 – Soapbox sections of the book 00:59:35 – What were things you were excited to update or add to the book? 01:05:46 – Metaprogramming portion of the book 01:08:17 – What are you excited about in the world of Python? 01:10:35 – What do you want to learn next? 01:18:41 – Shoutouts, plugs, and/or social connections 01:19:47 – Thanks and goodbye Show Links: Fluent Python, 2nd Edition Protocol: The keystone of type hints - Luciano Ramalho | PyCon US 2021 Type hints, protocols, and good sense: PyCon India 2021 - Speaker Deck Generate buzz with realtime FM audio synthesis - Łukasz Langa | PyCon US 2021 Garoa Hacker Clube Processing.py - Tutorials PEP 544 – Protocols: Structural subtyping (static duck typing) | Python.org typeshed: Collection of library stubs for Python, with static types Python Type Checking (Guide) – Real Python Protocols and structural subtyping — Mypy documentation Dependent type - Wikipedia microsoft/pyright: Static type checker for Python Welcome to mypy documentation! PEP 487 – Simpler customisation of class creation | Python.org PEP 636 – Structural Pattern Matching: Tutorial | Python.org What’s New In Python 3.10 — Better error messages Flutter - Build apps for any screen Ramalho.org/wiki Luciano Ramalho Twitter(@ramalhoorg) Level up your Python skills with our expert-led courses: Using Pygame to Build an Asteroids Game in Python Records and Sets: Selecting the Ideal Data Structure Python Type Checking Support the podcast & join our community of Pythonistas

Have you wanted to work with RSS feeds in Python? Maybe you’re looking for a new project to build for your portfolio that uses Django, unit tests, and custom commands. This week on the show, we have Real Python author Ricky White to talk about his recent step-by-step project titled, “Build a Content Aggregator in Python.” Ricky has been authoring the Real Python interview series for several years and was formerly our Community Manager. He talks about what inspired him to create this project and the Python technology and libraries to build it. He also shares advice about adding tests to personal portfolio projects. We start the show by discussing Python’s GIL (Global Interpreter Lock) and the efforts to potentially remove it in future versions of Python. This change could make a significant impact on Python code running on multi-core processors. We talk about two recent articles covering the developments. Course Spotlight: Get Started With Django: Build a Portfolio App In this course, you’ll learn the basics of creating powerful web applications with Django, a Python web framework. You’ll build a portfolio website to showcase your web development projects, complete with a fully functioning blog. Topics: 00:00:00 – Introduction 00:02:07 – Citizenship 00:03:52 – Ricky’s Real Python interviews 00:05:55 – Upcoming interview with Eric Wastl about Advent of Code 00:08:05 – Notes From the Meeting On Python GIL Removal 00:18:41 – Sponsor: Cloudsmith 00:19:26 – Build a Content Aggregator in Python 00:20:28 – Django background 00:23:37 – What web technologies were you using before Python? 00:25:07 – What motivated the project? 00:26:46 – Technical hurdles 00:30:52 – Including tests in a portfolio project 00:32:56 – Django custom commands 00:37:02 – Video Course Spotlight 00:38:16 – RSS Feeds - Really Simple Syndication and Podcasts 00:42:16 – Working with django-apscheduler 00:47:06 – Taking the project further and CSS frameworks 00:51:04 – What are you excited about in the world of Python? 00:53:58 – What do you want to learn next? 00:55:52 – Shoutouts and social connections 00:56:57 – Thanks and goodbye Show Links: About Ricky White – Real Python Build a Content Aggregator in Python: Real Python project-based tutorial About - Advent of Code 2021 A viable solution for Python concurrency: LWN.net Notes From the Meeting On Python GIL Removal Between Python Core and Sam Gross What Is the Python Global Interpreter Lock (GIL)? – Real Python nogil: Python Multithreading without GIL Walk AS One What is Ankylosing Spondylitis? Spondy News Writing custom django-admin commands | Django documentation django-apscheduler - A Django app that adds a lightweight wrapper around APScheduler RabbitMQ - Messaging that just works RSS: Really Simple Syndication- Wikipedia Flipboard - Stories from 28,875 topics personalized for you NetNewsWire: Free and Open Source RSS Reader for Mac and iOS Welcome to Feedly Bootstrap - The most popular HTML, CSS, and JS library in the world Tailwind CSS - Rapidly build modern websites without ever leaving your HTML Python Software Foundation News: 2021 End of the year fundraiser! Structural Pattern Matching Python 3.10: Cool New Features for You to Try Ricky’s Twitter- (@endlesstrax) Endlesstrax: Ricky’s Website Level up your Python skills with our expert-led courses: Getting Started With Django: Building a Portfolio App Test-Driven Development With pytest How to Set Up a Django Project Support the podcast & join our community of Pythonistas

Do you remember the One Laptop Per Child program? What went wrong, and what can we learn from the program’s failure? What are the potential pitfalls of charismatic technology, and how can we avoid them when introducing students to programming? This week on the show, former guest Al Sweigart and author Morgan Ames are here to talk about her book “The Charisma Machine - The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child.” We discuss the OLPC program and how idealized visions of our programming backgrounds can become traps. Morgan explains how these utopian visions are still used to attempt to disrupt education. Along with this cautionary tale, we also talk about educational programs that are working and how entry points to programming are changing. Course Spotlight: Using Pandas to Make a Gradebook in Python With this course and Python project, you’ll build a script to calculate grades for a class using pandas. The script will quickly and accurately calculate grades from a variety of data sources. You’ll see examples of loading, merging, and saving data with pandas, as well as plotting some summary statistics. Topics: 00:00:00 – Introduction 00:02:13 – Morgan’s background 00:02:58 – Computer Science and Information Science 00:04:46 – Early introduction of computers to schools 00:08:25 – What was the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Program? 00:12:32 – Turtle art and Scratch 00:16:34 – Sponsor: CData Software 00:17:15 – What is the global south? 00:19:12 – How does charisma apply to objects and technology? 00:28:30 – Python language design and Learn to Code 00:34:53 – Media technology scares and the self taught coder 00:40:35 – Video Course Spotlight 00:41:41 – Technically precocious boys and exclusion of others 00:43:47 – Minecraft and technology maintenance skills 00:49:08 – Skewed utopian visions and lack of ongoing support 00:52:54 – Shifting feminine vs masculine perceived roles in computing 01:02:41 – Changing entry points for programming 01:09:00 – The why of “learn to code” and empowerment 01:13:13 – Metaverse, nostalgia, and dystopia 01:14:45 – The Diamond Age and Code Hero Kickstarter 01:16:53 – Avoiding future charismatic traps 01:18:28 – Shoutouts and social connections 01:21:04 – Thanks and goodbyes Show Links: Morgan G. Ames: Personal Website The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child Al Sweigart: Personal Website The OLPC Wiki Logo History: Logo Foundation Seymour Papert: Wikipedia article Mitchel Resnick - LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research at the MIT Media Lab Sounding Out with the OLPC XO: Linux Journal Scratch: The world’s largest free coding community for kids VR Will Make Life Better—Or Just Be an Opiate for the Masses The Perils of Using Technology to Solve Other People’s Problems Gender & Computing - Nathan Ensmenger Disruptive Fixation: School Reform and the Pitfalls of Techno-Idealism Connected Learning Lab: Research Themes STEM vs. STEAM: Why One Letter Matters Black Girls CODE Code Hero: A Game That Teaches You To Make Games Chasing Innovation: The Limits of Entrepreneurship - Online talk Turkopticon helps the people in the ‘crowd’ of crowdsourcing watch out for each other—because nobody else seems to be. Morgan G. Ames: Twitter profile Invent With Python: Learn to Program Level up your Python skills with our expert-led courses: Using pandas to Make a Gradebook in Python Command Line Interfaces in Python Grow Your Python Portfolio With 13 Intermediate Project Ideas Support the podcast & join our community of Pythonistas

Are you getting the most out of the Django framework? It’s a powerful web framework if you’re not interested in reinventing the wheel. Django includes a useful template system with inheritance for composing reusable HTML. This week on the show, we have previous guest and Real Python author Christopher Trudeau to talk about his recent articles and courses about Django. Christopher explains how Django templates help you avoid rewriting large portions of HTML for your web applications. His first article covers the built-in tags and filters provided by the framework. The second one dives into how customize and implement your own filters and tags. Christopher also talks about his process for choosing topics for articles and courses. We start the episode by covering a recent article by CPython Developer in Residence, Łukasz Langa. We talked in a previous episode about his plan to study where all the Python core developer activity goes. He’s gathered several years of GitHub data, and we discuss the post. Course Spotlight: Building With Django REST Framework This course will get you ready to build with Django REST Framework. The Django REST framework (DRF) is a toolkit built on top of the Django web framework that reduces the amount of code you need to write to create REST interfaces. Topics: 00:00:00 – Introduction 00:02:03 – Where does all the effort go? Looking at Python core developer activity 00:07:23 – Notes From the Meeting On Python GIL Removal Between Python Core and Sam Gross 00:08:36 – Django background 00:11:28 Flask vs Django 00:14:37 – Django Templates: Built-In Tags and Filters 00:25:26 – Sponsor: Cloudsmith 00:26:12 – Django Templates: Implementing Custom Tags and Filters 00:32:54 – Django Rest Framework - video course 00:42:09 – Video Course Spotlight 00:43:16 – What goes into picking an article to turn into a course? 00:53:18 – What are you excited about in the world of Python? 00:57:00 – Support Django development by donating to the Django Software Foundation 01:00:55 – Thanks and goodbye Show Links: About Christopher Trudeau: Real Python Page arSensa: Christopher’s personal website Where does all the effort go? Looking at Python core developer activity Episode 82: Welcoming the CPython Developer in Residence Notes From the Meeting On Python GIL Removal Between Python Core and Sam Gross nogil: Python Multithreading without GIL Django Templates: Built-In Tags and Filters - Real Python Article Django Templates: Implementing Custom Tags and Filters - Real Python Article Django: The web framework for perfectionists with deadlines Asciimatics: A cross-platform package to replace curses and create ASCII animations Asciimatics: GitHub Repo Support Django development by donating to the Django Software Foundation Level up your Python skills with our expert-led courses: Building HTTP APIs With Django REST Framework Django View Authorization: Restricting Access Getting Started With Django: Building a Portfolio App Support the podcast & join our community of Pythonistas

Have you wanted to generate PDFs from your Python project? Many of the current libraries require designing the document down at the pixel level. Would you be interested in a tool that lets you specify the page layout while it handles the specific details of laying out the text? This week on the show, we talk with Joris Schellekens about his library for creating and manipulating PDFs named borb. borb is a pure Python library that can read, write and manipulate PDFs. You can use it to build fillable forms, invoices with attached data files, and multiple column document layouts. We discuss the extensive example repository Joris has created for the library. Joris shares his background in working with PDFs. He talks about starting the project and the challenges he had to overcome. We also talk about licensing and maintaining an open-source library. Course Spotlight: Writing Idiomatic Python What are the programming idioms unique to Python? This course is a short overview for people coming from other languages and an introduction for beginners to the idiomatic practices within Python. You’ll cover truth values, looping, DRY principles, and the Zen of Python. Topics: 00:00:00 – Introduction 00:01:58 – Articles about borb 00:03:25 – History of the project 00:07:26 – Background in PDFs and Postscript 00:09:18 – Signatures and other challenges of working in PDFs 00:11:33 – Reading from PDFs and standards of versions 00:14:54 – Features of the library and creating documents 00:18:25 – Creating layout features 00:20:42 – How are fonts handled in borb? 00:21:19 – Sponsor: Cloudsmith 00:22:04 – Why use JSON across the library? 00:22:55 – Embedding data and files within a PDF 00:25:12 – What features were crucial for you to include in borb? 00:28:48 – Why creating a separate examples repository? 00:31:04 – Article series about borb 00:32:25 – Writing a book about borb 00:33:44 – Python 3.10 and borb 00:34:19 – Video Course Spotlight 00:35:39 – Licensing borb and AGPL 00:45:14 – Other open-source projects and Stack Overflow answers 00:46:37 – Working with forms in borb 00:47:55 – Additional tools for working with PDFs 00:50:15 – Different users of the library 00:53:36 – Thoughts on the future of PDFs 00:58:10 – What are you excited about in the world of Python? 00:58:40 – What do you want to learn next? 01:00:25 – Social connection info 01:00:46 – Thanks and goodbye Show Links: borb: A Python PDF library borb Examples Repository Creating a PDF Document in Python with borb Creating PDF Invoices in Python with borb Creating a Form in a PDF Document in Python With borb iText PDF ISO 32000 (PDF): the family of ISO standards that defines the core PDF specification XRechnung update: What you should know about electronic invoices to the German public sector! XRechnung: Standard format for German authorities from 2020 AGPL: Affero General Public License - Wikipedia Ghostscript: Interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF veraPDF: Industry Supported PDF/A Validation Okular: The Universal Document Viewer Keras and Tensorflow: Getting Started Level up your Python skills with our expert-led courses: How to Work With a PDF in Python Documenting Code in Python Writing Idiomatic Python Support the podcast & join our community of Pythonistas

Are you interested in sharing your Python project with the broader world? Would you like to make it easily installable using pip? How do you create Python packages that share your code in a scalable and maintainable way? This week on the show, Real Python author and former guest Dane Hillard returns to talk about his new book, “Publishing Python Packages.” Dane shares his research into creating Python packages. We talk about the tools, techniques, and potential pitfalls of publishing your packages. Dane also discusses his experiences unraveling projects and determining dependencies. We also talk about Dane’s recent conference talk at PyGotham titled “Keeping code safe and modern with semantic searches.” He shares some security tools and practices. Course Spotlight: Documenting Python Code: A Complete Guide This course will get you up to speed with how to document your Python code. Documenting your code is an important step to help developers and users fully understand its usage and purpose. Topics: 00:00:00 – Introduction 00:01:57 – PyGotham Talk: Keeping code safe and modern with semantic searches 00:06:24 – What was the driving reason for starting Publishing Pyhton Packages? 00:08:54 – What is CookieCutter? 00:11:53 – The book as a research project 00:15:20 – Sponsor: CData Software 00:16:01 – What is a package? 00:18:56 – What is a published package? 00:25:37 – What other experiences made you want to write this book? 00:28:05 – Where to start? 00:33:26 – Balance of examples and explanation 00:40:49 – Cohesion and studying the relationships between sections of code 00:46:19 – Documentation and tools like Sphinx 00:50:18 – Video Course Spotlight 00:51:30 – What were you most excited to share in the book? 00:54:06 – Additional resources for packaging 00:57:17 – What are you excited about in the world of Python? 00:57:53 – What do you want to learn next? 00:59:30 – Shout outs and plugs 01:00:28 – Thanks and goodbye Show Links: About Dane Hillard Publishing Python Packages - Manning Early Access Program (MEAP) Episode 49: The Challenges of Developing Into a Python Professional Keeping code safe and modern with semantic searches - Dane Hillard Semgrep: Static analysis at ludicrous speed SonarSource: Code Quality & Code Security Snyk: Find and automatically fix vulnerabilities in your code CookieCutter: Better Project Templates Obsidian: A powerful knowledge base on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files The Python Package Index (PyPI): A repository of software for the Python programming language PIP: The package installer for Python Graphviz -Open source graph visualization software cibuildwheel - Builds and tests your wheels across all of your platforms Sphinx: A tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful documentation Documenting Python Code: A Complete Guide - Real Python Article Python Packaging User Guide - Python Packaging Authority How to Publish an Open-Source Python Package to PyPI - Real Python Article What Are Python Wheels and Why Should You Care? - Real Python Article PEP 517 – A build-system independent format for source trees PEP 518 – Specifying Minimum Build System Requirements for Python Projects PEP 440 – Version Identification and Dependency Specification Episode 29: Resolving Package Dependencies With the New Version of Pip Episode 80: Make Your Python App Interactive With a Text User Interface (TUI) - With Will McGugan Webpack - Module Federation PyGotham 2021 Publishing Python Packages - Manning Early Access Program (MEAP) Level up your Python skills with our expert-led courses: Using Pygame to Build an Asteroids Game in Python Cool New Features in Python 3.10 Documenting Code in Python Support the podcast & join our community of Pythonistas

Earlier this year, the Python Software Foundation announced the creation of the Developer in Residence role. The first Visionary Sponsors of the PSF have provided funding for this new role for one year. What development responsibilities does this job address? This week on the show, we talk to previous guest Łukasz Langa about becoming the first CPython Developer in Residence. We talk about how the first months in this role are shaping up. Łukasz discusses the need to address the backlog of open issues and pull requests. He also talks about how he is working to help the project’s volunteers move their contributions forward. We cover his PyCon 2021 talk about generating real-time FM audio synthesis in Python. He also shares his experience developing a similar synthesis engine for an embedded hardware project. Course Spotlight: Speech Recognition With Python In this course, you’ll cover the fundamentals of speech recognition with Python. You’ll learn which speech recognition library gives the best results and build a full-featured “Guess The Word” game with it. Topics: 00:00:00 – Introduction 00:01:51 – PyCon 2021 talk 00:20:54 – CPython Developer in Residence: Why did you want the role? 00:29:23 – Sponsor: DataStax Astra DB 00:29:55 – What were the expected responsibilities of the role? 00:35:47 – Working through BPO issues and GitHub pull requests 00:42:14 – Moving to migrate the systems 00:51:10 – Video Course Spotlight 00:52:26 – What trends can you see currently? 00:57:28 – Do you feel the amount of activity is increasing due to the role being in place? 01:03:46 – What skills would you look for in a person in this role? 01:07:26 – If there was a team of people how would things be different? 01:11:00 – How to follow along with the journey? 01:13:35 – Gathering and sharing data about the process 01:18:45 – What are you excited about in the world of Python? 01:25:04 – What do you want to learn next? 01:26:41 – Shout outs and plugs 01:31:36 – Thanks and goodbye Show Links: Generate buzz with realtime FM audio synthesis: PyCon 2021 Talk - YouTube Limited Edition Medusa Black: Polyend I am the new CPython Developer in Residence Weekly Report, October 4 - 10: Łukasz Langa’s Blog Meet the Python Developer in Residence: Lukasz Langa - Talk Python Podcast Argument Clinic How-To: Python docs PEP 594 – Removing dead batteries from the standard library Datasette: An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data Episode 80: Make Your Python App Interactive With a Text User Interface (TUI) Why I’m working on Open Source full time: Will McGugan Level up your Python skills with our expert-led courses: Cool New Features in Python 3.10 Documenting Python Projects With Sphinx and Read The Docs - Archived Speech Recognition With Python Support the podcast & join our community of Pythonistas