
Python Bytes
Python Bytes is a weekly podcast hosted by Michael Kennedy and Brian Okken. The show is a short discussion on the headlines and noteworthy news in the Python, developer, and data science space.
Latest episodes

May 18, 2022 • 41min
#284 Spicy git for Engineers
Topics covered in this episode:
distinctipy
Soda SQL
Python in Nature
Supercharging GitHub Actions with Job Summaries
Language Summit is write up out
AllSpice is Git for EEs
Extras
Joke
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May 12, 2022 • 33min
#283 The sports episode
Topics covered in this episode:
Pathy: a Path interface for local and cloud bucket storage
Robyn
Termshot
When Python can’t thread: a deep-dive into the GIL’s impact
Extras
Joke
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May 3, 2022 • 29min
#282 Don't Embarrass Me in Front of The Wizards
Topics covered in this episode:
pyscript
Memray from Bloomberg
pytest-parallel
Pooch: A friend for data files
Extras
Joke
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/282

Apr 28, 2022 • 47min
#281 ohmyzsh + ohmyposh + mcfly + pls + nerdfonts = wow
Topics covered in this episode:
Take Your Github Repository To The Next Level 🚀️
Fastero
Watchfiles
Slipcover: Near Zero-Overhead Python Code Coverage
Extras
Joke
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/281

Apr 21, 2022 • 38min
#280 Easy terminal scripts by sourcing your Py
Topics covered in this episode:
BTW, don’t make a public repo private
The counter-intuitive rise of Python in scientific computing
Dashboards in Python
sourcepy
Xonsh
Extras
Joke
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Apr 15, 2022 • 42min
#279 Autocorrect and other Git Tricks
Topics covered in this episode:
OpenBB wants to be an open source challenger to Bloomberg Terminal
Python f-strings
JSON Web Tokens @ jwt.io
Autocorrect and other Git Tricks
Extras
Joke
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Apr 8, 2022 • 34min
#278 Multi-tenant Python applications
Topics covered in this episode:
dunk - a prettier git diff
Is your Python code vulnerable to log injection?
Building multi tenant applications with Django
Should you pre-allocate lists in Python?
mockaroo and tonic
Extras
Joke
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/278

Apr 2, 2022 • 45min
#277 It's a Python package showdown!
Topics covered in this episode:
March Package Madness
nbpreview
strenum
Code Review Guidelines for Data Science Teams
Extras
Joke
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/277

Mar 23, 2022 • 45min
#276 Tracking cyber intruders with Jupyter and Python
Topics covered in this episode:
gensim.parsing.preprocessing
DevDocs
The Right Way To Compare Floats in Python
Pypyr
Extras
Joke
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/276

Mar 16, 2022 • 43min
#275 Airspeed velocity of an unladen astropy
Topics covered in this episode:
Async and await with subprocesses
Typesplainer
ASV
perflint
Extras
Joke
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/275