

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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Aug 2, 2020 • 30min
#192 Calculations by hand, but in the compter, with Handcalcs
Topics covered in this episode:
Building a self-updating profile README for GitHub
Handcalcs
The (non-)return of the Python print statement
FastAPI for Flask Users
Tweet deleting with tweepy
Clinging to memory: how Python function calls can increase your memory usage
No local variable at all
Re-use the local variable
Transfer object ownership
Extras
Joke
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/192

Jul 22, 2020 • 53min
#191 Live from the Manning Python Conference
Topics covered in this episode:
VS Code Device Simulator
pytest 6.0.0rc1
What is the core of the Python programming language?
Extras
Joke
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/191

Jul 16, 2020 • 44min
#190 You will now be notified if the Python zipper is broken
Topics covered in this episode:
Python async frameworks - Beyond developer tribalism
commitizen
International PyCons go online (kind of)
PEP 618 -- Add Optional Length-Checking To zip
timedelta and division?
Pylance released for Microsoft VS Code
Extras
Joke
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/190

Jul 9, 2020 • 32min
#189 What does str.strip() do? Are you sure?
Topics covered in this episode:
Improving Python exception chaining with raise-from
Create and publish interactive reports in Python
Pickle’s nine flaws
PEP 602 -- Annual Release Cycle for Python
More git Resources:
PEP 616 -- String methods to remove prefixes and suffixes
Extras
Joke
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Jul 3, 2020 • 32min
#188 Will there be a "switch" in Python the language?
Topics covered in this episode:
Making a trading bot asynchronous using Python’s “unsync” library
Fruit salad scrum estimation scale
Math to Code
PEP 622 -- Structural Pattern Matching
CodeArtifact from AWS
invoke
Extras
Joke
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Jun 26, 2020 • 29min
#187 Ready to find out if you're git famous?
Topics covered in this episode:
LEGO Mindstorms Robot Inventor supports Python
Step-by-step guide to contributing on GitHub
sneklang
Oh sh*t git
Why I don't like SemVer anymore
git fame
Extras
Joke
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Jun 18, 2020 • 25min
#186 The treebeard will guard your notebook
Topics covered in this episode:
sidetable - Create Simple Summary Tables in Pandas
tabulate
treebeard - ci for notebooks
Upcoming features in venv/virtualenv
PEP 582 now!
awesome pyproject.toml projects
Extras
Joke
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Jun 12, 2020 • 25min
#185 This code is snooping on you (a good thing!)
Topics covered in this episode:
MyST - Markedly Structured Text
direnv
Convert a Python Enum to JSON
Pendulum: Python datetimes made easy
PySnooper - Never use print for debugging again
Fil: A New Python Memory Profiler for Data Scientists and Scientists
Extras
Joke
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Jun 5, 2020 • 36min
#184 Too many ways to wait with await?
Topics covered in this episode:
Waiting in asyncio
virtualenv is faster than venv
Latency in Asynchronous Python
How to Deprecate a PyPI Package
Another progress bar library: Enlighten
Code Ocean
Extras
Joke
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/184

May 29, 2020 • 32min
#183 Need a beautiful database editor? Look to the Bees!
Topics covered in this episode:
fastpages: An easy to use blogging platform, with enhanced support for Jupyter Notebooks.
BeeKeeper Studio Open Source SQL Editor and Database Manager
2nd Annual Python Web Conference
Mimesis - Fake Data Generator
Schemathesis
Finding secrets by decompiling Python bytecode in public repositories
Extras
Joke
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