

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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Apr 7, 2020 • 30min
#176 How python implements super long integers
Topics covered in this episode:
* Quick chat about COVID 19*
What the heck is pyproject.toml?
Awesome Python Bytes Awesome List
Publishing package distribution releases using GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows
Rich text for terminals
psutil: Cross-platform lib for process and system monitoring in Python
How python implements super long integers
Extras
Joke
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Apr 1, 2020 • 33min
#175 Python string theory with superstring.py
Topics covered in this episode:
* Quick chat about COVID 19.*
Dictionary Merging and Updating in Python 3.9
superstring
New pip resolver to roll out this year
Why does all() return True if the iterable is empty?
pytest-monitor
Extras
Joke
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Mar 26, 2020 • 48min
#174 Happy developers use Python 3
Topics covered in this episode:
* Quick chat about COVID 19.*
Documentation as a way to build Community
The Django Speed Handbook: making a Django app faster
dacite: simplifies creation of data classes from dictionaries
How we retired Python 2 and improved developer happiness
The Troublesome Active Record Pattern
Types at the edges in Python
Extras
Joke
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Mar 19, 2020 • 29min
#173 Your test deserves a fluent flavor
Topics covered in this episode:
Advanced usage of Python requests - timeouts, retries, hooks
Fluent Assertions
Python in GitHub Actions
VCR.py
8 Coolest Python Programming Language Features
Bento
Extras
Joke
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Mar 13, 2020 • 33min
#172 Floating high above the web with Helium
Topics covered in this episode:
Python in Production Hynek
* How to cheat at unit tests with pytest and Black*
Goodbye Microservices: From 100s of problem children to 1 superstar
Helium makes Selenium-Python 50% easier
uncertainties package
Personalize your python prompt
Extras
Joke
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Mar 5, 2020 • 35min
#171 Chilled out Python decorators with PEP 614
Topics covered in this episode:
PEP 614 – Relaxing Grammar Restrictions on Decorators
Create a macOS Menu Bar App with Python (Pomodoro Timer)
Conditional Coverage
Extras
Joke
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Feb 25, 2020 • 29min
#170 Visualize this: Visualizing Python's visualization ecosystem
Topics covered in this episode:
Python visualization graph
Awesome Zen of Python
Jupytext
Tour of Python Itertools
justpy.io
Modularity for Maintenance
Extras
Joke
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Feb 19, 2020 • 26min
#169 Jupyter Notebooks natively on your iPad
Topics covered in this episode:
D-Tale
Carnets
BeeWare Podium
pytest-mock-resources
How James Bennet is testing in 2020
Python and PyQt: Building a GUI Desktop Calculator
Extras
Joke
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Feb 11, 2020 • 34min
#168 Race your donkey car with Python
Topics covered in this episode:
donkeycar
RIP Pipenv: Tried Too Hard. Do what you need with pip-tools.
str.casefold()
Virtualenv
Property-based tests for the Python standard library (and builtins)
PyCon US Tutorial Schedule & Registration
Extras
Joke
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Feb 3, 2020 • 29min
#167 Cheating at Kaggle and uWSGI in prod
Topics covered in this episode:
clize: Turn functions into command-line interfaces
How to cheat at Kaggle AI contests
* Configuring uWSGI for Production Deployment*
* Thinc: A functional take on deep learning, compatible with Tensorflow, PyTorch, and MXNet*
* pandas-vet*
* NumPy beginner documentation*
Extras
Joke
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