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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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:
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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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Aug 4, 2021 • 42min
#245 Fire up your Python time machine (and test some code)
Topics covered in this episode:
State of the community (via Jet Brains)
Cornell - record & replay mock server
pyinstrument
Python 3.10 is now in Release Candidate phase. RC1 just released.
Extras
Joke
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Jul 30, 2021 • 35min
#244 vendorizing your Python podcast
Topics covered in this episode:
pip Environmental Variables
Extra, Extra, 6x Extra, hear all about it
Building and testing Python with GitHub Actions
python-vendorize
Extras
Joke
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Jul 21, 2021 • 42min
#243 Django unicorns and multi-region PostgreSQL
Topics covered in this episode:
MongoDB 5
Python 3.11: Enhanced error locations in tracebacks
fly.io multi-region PostgreSQL and last mile Redis
django-unicorn
Blue: The somewhat less uncompromising code formatter than black
Organize and Index Your Screenshots (OCR) on macOS
Extras
Joke
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