

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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Jan 3, 2020 • 23min
#162 Retrofitting async and await into Django
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Dec 18, 2019 • 30min
#161 Sloppy Python can mean fast answers!
Topics covered in this episode:
Larry Hastings - Solve Your Problem With Sloppy Python - PyCon 2018
Introduction to ASGI: Emergence of an Async Python Web Ecosystem
Python Insights
Assembly
Building a Standalone GPS Logger with CircuitPython using @Adafruit and particle hardware
10 reasons python is good to learn
Extras
Joke
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Dec 12, 2019 • 29min
#160 Your JSON shall be streamed
Topics covered in this episode:
Type Hints for Busy Python Programmers
auto-py-to-exe
How to document Python code with Sphinx
Snek is a cross-platform PowerShell module for integrating with Python
How to use Pandas to access databases
ijson — Iterative JSON parser with a standard Python iterator interface
Extras
Joke
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Dec 3, 2019 • 33min
#159 Brian's PR is merged, the src will flow
Topics covered in this episode:
Final type
flit 2
Pint
8 great pytest plugins
11 new web frameworks
Raise Better Exceptions in Python
Extras
Joke
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/159

Nov 27, 2019 • 26min
#158 There's a bounty on your open-source bugs!
Topics covered in this episode:
GitHub launches 'Security Lab' to help secure open source ecosystem
pybit.es now has some test challenges
pyhttptest - a command-line tool for HTTP tests over RESTful APIs
xarray
Animated SVG Terminals
Extras
Joke
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Nov 20, 2019 • 24min
#157 Oh hai Pandas, hold my hand?
Topics covered in this episode:
pydantic
Coverage.py 5.0 beta 1 adds context support
PSF is seeking developers for paid contract improving pip
dovpanda - Directions OVer PANDAs
removestar
pytest-quarantine : Save the list of failing tests, so that they can be automatically marked as expected failures on future test runs.
Extras
Joke
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Nov 15, 2019 • 28min
#156 All the programming LOLs
Topics covered in this episode:
Why You Should Use python -m pip
Visual Studio Online: Web-Based IDE & Collaborative Code Editor
Black 19.10b0 Released — stable release coming soon
Extras
Joke
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Nov 6, 2019 • 32min
#155 Guido van Rossum retires
Topics covered in this episode:
Guido retires
SeleniumBase
Reimplementing a Solaris command in Python gained 17x performance improvement from C
20 useful Python tips and tricks you should know
Complexity Waterfall
Plynth
Extras
Joke
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Oct 29, 2019 • 32min
#154 Code, frozen in carbon, on display for all
Topics covered in this episode:
Lesser Known Coding Fonts
Django Admin Handbook
Your Guide to the CPython Source Code
Six Django template tags not often used in tutorials
Beautiful code snippets with Carbon
Researchers find bug in Python script may have affected hundreds of studies
Extras
Joke
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Oct 23, 2019 • 27min
#153 Auto format my Python please!
Topics covered in this episode:
Building a Python C Extension Module
What’s New in Python 3.8 - docs.python.org
UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is warning developers of the risks of sticking with Python 2.7, particularly for library writers
Pythonic News
Deep Learning Workstations, Servers, Laptops, and GPU Cloud
Auto formatters for Python
Extras
Joke
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