

Python Bytes
Michael Kennedy and Brian Okken
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.
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Oct 20, 2021 • 47min
#255 Closember eve, the cure for Hacktoberfest?
Topics covered in this episode:
Wrapping C++ with Cython
tbump : bump software releases
Closember by Matthias Bussonnier
scikit learn goes 1.0
Using devpi as an offline PyPI cache
PyPi command line
Extras
Joke
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Oct 13, 2021 • 31min
#254 Do Excel things, get notebook Python code with Mito
Topics covered in this episode:
yaml, GH Actions, and Python 3.10
Beating C and Java, Python Becomes the #1 Most Popular Programming Language, Says TIOBE
Newspaper3k: Article scraping & curation
PEP 660, pip 21.3, flit 3.4 -> easy editable installs
Mito - a JupterLab Extension - generates Python code while you work on your analysis
troposphere
Extras
Joke
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Oct 7, 2021 • 45min
#253 A new Python for you, and for everyone!
Topics covered in this episode:
awesome-htmx
Python 3.10 is here !!!!
Prospector (almost) All Python analysis tools together
Rich Pandas DataFrames
Union types, baby!
Make your code darker - Improving Python code incrementally
Extras
Joke
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Sep 29, 2021 • 44min
#252 Jupyter is now a desktop app!
Topics covered in this episode:
* Changing themes to DIY*
SQLFluff
JupyterLab Desktop
Requests Cache
pypi-rename
Django 4 coming with Redis Adapter
PEP 612
Extras
Joke
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Sep 22, 2021 • 56min
#251 A 95% complete episode (wait for it)
Topics covered in this episode:
auto-optional
Making World-Class Docs Takes Effort
Starship
JMESPath
pedalboard - audio effects library
PEP 665 (and the journey so far)
Extras
Joke
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Sep 15, 2021 • 42min
#250 skorch your scikit-learn together with PyTorch
Topics covered in this episode:
Exciting New Ways To Be Told That Your Python Code is Bad
GitHub Readme Stats
Nox
Two tools for dealing with text
MPIRE (MultiProcessing Is Really Easy)
skorch
Extras
Joke
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Sep 9, 2021 • 37min
#249 All of Linux as a Python API
Topics covered in this episode:
Fickling
Python Project-Local Virtualenv Management
Testcontainers
jc
What is Python's Ellipsis Object?
PyTorch Forecasting
Extras
Joke
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Sep 2, 2021 • 52min
#248 while True: stand up, sit down
Topics covered in this episode:
Why I use attrs instead of pydantic
mclfy
* Textual and* boilerplate removal
xdoctest
Automate the standing desk with python
Hypermodern Python Cookiecutter
Extras
Joke
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Aug 26, 2021 • 46min
#247 Do you dare to press "."?
Topics covered in this episode:
Keep your computer awake during long processing
How to write a great Stack Overflow question
Github.dev - press ‘.’ to edit code in any GitHub repo
Log analyzer (minus google analytics)
KMK: Clackety Keyboards Powered by Python
SQLModel - use the same models for SQL and FastAPI
Extras
Joke
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Aug 11, 2021 • 46min
#246 Love your crashes, use Rich to beautify tracebacks
Topics covered in this episode:
mktestdocs
Redis powered queues (QR3)
25 Pandas Functions You Didn’t Know Existed
FastAPI and Rich Tracebacks in Development
Dev in Residence
Dagster
Extras
Joke
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