

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 31, 2020 • 34min
#205 This is going to be a little bit awkward
Topics covered in this episode:
Awkward arrays
Ordered dict surprises
jupyter lab autocomplete and more
Open Source Tools & Data for Music Source Separation
Pass by Reference in Python: Background and Best Practices
Visualizing Git Concepts
Extras
Joke
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Oct 23, 2020 • 40min
#204 Take the PSF survey and Will & Carlton drop by
Topics covered in this episode:
nbQA: Quality Assurance for Jupyter Notebooks
The PSF yearly survey is out, go take it now!
From Prototype to Production in Django
Deployment: Getting your app online
All Contributors
MovingPandas
Extras
Joke
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Oct 16, 2020 • 41min
#203 Scripting a masterpiece for Python web automation
Topics covered in this episode:
Introducing DigitalOcean App Platform
Announcing Playwright for Python
Asynchronously Opening and Closing Files in asyncio
Excel: Why using Microsoft's tool caused Covid-19 results to be lost
locust.io
Fixing Hacktoberfest
Extras
Joke
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Oct 9, 2020 • 33min
#202 Jupyter is back in black!
Topics covered in this episode:
New in Python 3.9
jupyter-black
Understanding and preventing DoS in web applications
bbox-visualizer
How to NEVER use lambdas.
Uncommon Contributions: Making impact without touching the core of a library
Extras
Joke
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Oct 2, 2020 • 40min
#201 Understand git by rebuilding it in Python
Topics covered in this episode:
Under the hood of calling C/C++ from Python
* ugit: DIY Git in Python*
Things I Learned to Become a Senior Software Engineer
Profiling Django Views
Extras
Joke
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Sep 25, 2020 • 32min
#200 No dog-piling please (it's episode 200!)
Topics covered in this episode:
How to be helpful online
* blackcellmagic*
Test smarter, not harder
US: The Greatest Package in the World
Think Like A Coder
Costs of running a Python web app for 55k monthly users
Extras
Joke
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Sep 17, 2020 • 29min
#199 Big news for a very small Python runtime
Topics covered in this episode:
micropython updated
respx: A utility for mocking out the Python HTTPX library
GetPy - A Vectorized Python Dict/Set
isort and black now play nice together easily
Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates
Never Run ‘python’ In Your Downloads Folder
Extras
Joke
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Sep 11, 2020 • 35min
#198 There's a beaver in your database and Anna-Lena drops by
Topics covered in this episode:
Easily create Python scripts using argparse
DBeaver Database UI Tool
Anna- pdp++ debugger
Markdown toys
Python Malware and obfuscation
Anna- attrs package
Extras
Joke
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Sep 5, 2020 • 36min
#197 Structured concurrency in Python
Topics covered in this episode:
Structured concurrency in Python with AnyIO
The Consortium for Python Data API Standards
Ask for Forgiveness or Look Before You Leap?
myrepos
A deep dive into the official Docker image for Python
“Only in a Pandemic” section
Extras
Joke
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Aug 27, 2020 • 31min
#196 Version your SQL schemas with git + automatically migrate them
Topics covered in this episode:
Surviving Django (if you care about databases)
* Python Numbers and the Flyweight design pattern*
What Are Python Wheels and Why Should You Care?
* Pandas_Alive*
How To Use the Python Map Function
Version your SQL schemas with git + automatically migrate them
Extras
Joke
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