

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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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
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/272

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
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/271

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
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/270

Feb 3, 2022 • 41min
#269 Get Rich and replace your cat
Topics covered in this episode:
rich-cli
Documentation unit tests
Extras
Joke
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/269

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
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/268

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
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/267

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
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/266

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

Dec 22, 2021 • 53min
#264 We're just playing games with Jupyter at this point
Topics covered in this episode:
Jupyter Games
Canary Tokens
A reverse chronology of some Python features
Hyperactive GCs and ORMs/ODMs
Extras
Joke
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/264

Dec 15, 2021 • 50min
#263 It’s time to stop using Python 3.6
Topics covered in this episode:
Django 4.0 released
python-minifier
It’s time to stop using Python 3.6
How to Visualize the Formula 1 Championship in Python
nbdime : Jupyter Notebook Diff and Merge tools
Using AI to analyse and recommend software stacks for Python apps
Extras
Joke
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/263


