
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

Mar 9, 2022 • 40min
#274 12 Questions You Should Be Asking of Your Dependencies
Topics covered in this episode:
The Adam Test: 12 Questions for New Dependencies
Validate emails with email-validator
The Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter
Git Organized: A Better Git Flow
CPython issues moving to GitHub soon
* MicroPython, CircuitPython and GitHub*
Extras
Joke
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/274

Mar 4, 2022 • 37min
#273 Getting dirty with __eq__(self, other)
Topics covered in this episode:
Physics Breakthrough as AI Successfully Controls Plasma in Nuclear Fusion Experiment
PEP 680 -- tomllib: Support for Parsing TOML in the Standard Library
What is a generator function?
dirty-equals
Commitizen
Extras
Joke
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Feb 24, 2022 • 48min
#272 The tools episode
Topics covered in this episode:
Why your mock still doesn’t work
pls
Kitty
Futures and easy parallelisation
pgMustard
bpytop
Extras
Joke
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Feb 16, 2022 • 57min
#271 CPython: Async Task Groups in Python 3.11
Topics covered in this episode:
fastapi-events
Ways I Use Testing as a Data Scientist
py-overload
Next-generation seaborn interface
Compile CPython to Web Assembly
Extras
Joke
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Feb 10, 2022 • 47min
#270 Can errors really be beautiful?
Topics covered in this episode:
A Better Pygame Mainloop
awesome sqlalchemy
ThreadPoolExecutor in Python: The Complete Guide
Chaining comparison operators
Create Beautiful Tracebacks with Python’s Exception Hooks
Extras
Joke
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Feb 3, 2022 • 41min
#269 Get Rich and replace your cat
Topics covered in this episode:
rich-cli
Documentation unit tests
Extras
Joke
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Jan 27, 2022 • 45min
#268 Wait, you can Google that?
Topics covered in this episode:
(draft) PEP 679 -- Allow parentheses in assert statements
Everything I googled as a dev
PyCascades 2022!
Strict Python function parameters
mureq - vendored requests
Extras
Joke
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Jan 21, 2022 • 33min
#267 Python on the beach
Topics covered in this episode:
Box: Python dictionaries with advanced dot notation access
Reading tracebacks in Python
Raspberry Pi: These two new devices just went live on the International Space Station
Make Simple Mocks With SimpleNamespace
* Extra, extra, exta*
3 Things You Might Not Know About Numbers in Python
Extras
Joke
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Jan 13, 2022 • 27min
#266 Python has a glossary?
Topics covered in this episode:
Python glossary and FAQ
Any.io
Vaex : a high performance Python library for lazy Out-of-Core DataFrames
Django Community Survey Results
* Extra, Extra, Extra, Extra:*
Extras
Joke
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Jan 5, 2022 • 48min
#265 Get asizeof pympler and muppy
Topics covered in this episode:
* Survey results*
Modern attrs API
Yamele - A schema and validator for YAML
pympler
Extras
Joke
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/265