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 8, 2019 • 24min
#146 Slay the dragon, learn the Python
Topics covered in this episode:
Positional-only arguments in Python
django-stubs
CodeCombat
Four Use Cases for When to Use Celery in a Flask Application
pytest-steps
docassemble
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Aug 31, 2019 • 34min
#145 The Python 3 “Y2K” problem
Topics covered in this episode:
friendly-traceback
* Pandas Users Survey*
* python3 “Y2K” problem (python3.10 / python4.0)*
pypi research
* DaPy*
python-remote-pdb
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Aug 23, 2019 • 26min
#144 Are you mocking me? It won't work!
Topics covered in this episode:
Why your mock doesn’t work
The nonlocal statement in Python
twitter.com/brettsky/status/1163860672762933249
pre-commit now has a quick start guide
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Aug 14, 2019 • 33min
#143 Spike the robot, powered by Python!
Topics covered in this episode:
Keynote: Python 2020 - Łukasz Langa - PyLondinium19
My oh my, flake8-mypy and pytest-mypy
Python 3 at Mozilla
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Joke
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Aug 6, 2019 • 31min
#142 There's a bandit in the Python space
Topics covered in this episode:
Writing sustainable Python scripts
Static Analysis and Bandit
jupyter-black
Report Generation workflow with papermill, jupyter, rclone, nbconvert, …
How — and why — you should use Python Generators
Extras
Joke
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Jul 29, 2019 • 31min
#141 Debugging with f-strings coming in Python 3.8
Topics covered in this episode:
Debugging with f-strings in Python 3.8
Am I "real" software developer yet?
Debugging with local variables and snoop
New home for Humans
The Backwards Commercial License
Switching Python Parsers?
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Joke
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Jul 23, 2019 • 25min
#140 Becoming a 10x Developer (sorta)
Topics covered in this episode:
Becoming a 10x Developer: 10 ways to be a better teammate
quasar & vue.py
Regular Expressions 101
python-diskcache
The Python Help System
Python Architecture Graphs
Extras
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Jul 18, 2019 • 39min
#139 f"Yes!" for the f-strings
Topics covered in this episode:
Simplify Your Python Developer Environment
New fast.ai course: A Code-First Introduction to Natural Language Processing
Cloning the human voice
Ab(using) pyproject.toml and stuffing pytest.ini and mypy.ini content into it
Polyaxon
Flynt for f-strings
Extras
Joke
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Jul 8, 2019 • 30min
#138 Will PyOxidizer weld shut one of Python's major gaps?
Topics covered in this episode:
flake8-comprehensions
PyOxidizer (again)
Using changedir to avoid the need for src
WebRTC and ORTC implementation for Python using asyncio
Apprise - Push Notifications that work with just about every platform!
Websauna web framework
Extras
Joke
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Jul 2, 2019 • 28min
#137 Advanced Python testing and big-time diffs
Topics covered in this episode:
Comparing the Same Project in Rust, Haskell, C++, Python, Scala and OCaml
MongoDB 4.2
Deep Difference and search of any Python object/data
Advanced Python Testing
Understanding Python's del
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