

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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May 19, 2020 • 26min
#182 PSF Survey is out!
Topics covered in this episode:
PSF / JetBrains Survey
Hypermodern Python
Open AI Jukebox
The Curious Case of Python's Context Manager
nbstripout
Write ups for The 2020 Python Language Summit
Extras
Joke
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/182

May 14, 2020 • 31min
#181 It's time to interrogate your Python code
Topics covered in this episode:
interrogate: checks your code base for missing docstrings
Streamlit: Turn Python Scripts into Beautiful ML Tools
Why You Should Document Your Tests
HoloViz project
A cool new progress bar for python
Awesome Panel
Extras
Joke
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/181

May 8, 2020 • 33min
#180 Transactional file IO with Python and safer
Topics covered in this episode:
Ubuntu 20.04 is out !
Working with warnings in Python
Safer file writer
codespell
Austin profiler
Numbers in Python
Extras
Joke
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/180

Apr 30, 2020 • 45min
#179 Guido van Rossum drops in on Python Bytes
Topics covered in this episode:
New governance model for the Django project
missingno
Announcements from the language summit.
Codes of Conduct and Enforcement
Myths about Indentation
Parsers and LibCST
Extras
Joke
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Apr 22, 2020 • 38min
#178 Build a PyPI package from a Jupyter notebook
Topics covered in this episode:
Pandas-Bokeh
Stop naming your python modules “utils”
From 1 to 10,000 test cases in under an hour: A beginner's guide to property-based testing
Extras
Joke
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/178

Apr 16, 2020 • 42min
#177 Coding is 90% Google searching or is it?
Topics covered in this episode:
Announcing a new Sponsorship Program for Python Packaging
energy-usage
Coding is 90% Google Searching — A Brief Note for Beginners
Using WSL to Build a Python Development Environment on Windows
A Pythonic Guide to SOLID Design Principles
Types for Python HTTP APIs: An Instagram Story
Extras
Joke
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/177

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
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/175

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
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/173


