

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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Mar 22, 2019 • 29min
#122 Give Me Back My Monolith
Topics covered in this episode:
[play:0:55] Combining and separating dictionaries
[play:3:02] Why I Avoid Slack
[play:7:57] Hunting for Memory Leaks in Python applications
[play:13:06] Give Me Back My Monolith
[play:18:23] Famous Laws Of Software Development
[play:20:54] Beer Garden Plugins
Extras
Joke
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Mar 16, 2019 • 24min
#121 python2 becomes self-aware, enters fifth stage of grief
Topics covered in this episode:
[play:0:40] Futurize and Auto-Futurize
[play:3:42] Tech blog writing live stream
[play:8:50] bullet: Beautiful Python Prompts Made Simple
[play:11:15] Hosting private pip packages using Azure Artifacts
[play:13:15] Async/await for wxPython
Extras
Joke
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Mar 5, 2019 • 25min
#120 AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source and more
Topics covered in this episode:
[play:0:53] The Ultimate Guide To Memorable Tech Talks
[play:3:56] Running Flask on Kubernetes
[play:10:51] Python server setup for macOS 🍎
[play:12:52] Learn Enough Python to be Useful: argparse
[play:14:56] AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source
Extras
Joke
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Feb 26, 2019 • 22min
#119 Assorted files as Django ORM backends with Alkali
Topics covered in this episode:
[play:0:52] Incrementally migrating over one million lines of code from Python 2 to Python 3
[play:3:42] Network Automation Development with Python (for fun and for profit)
[play:9:59] Carnegie Mellon Launches Undergraduate Degree in Artificial Intelligence
[play:11:37] asyncio + PyQt5/PySide2
[play:13:02] 4 things I want to see in Python 4.0
Extras
Joke
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Feb 22, 2019 • 26min
#118 Better Python executable management with pipx
Topics covered in this episode:
[play:7:52] Data science is different now
Extras
Joke
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Feb 14, 2019 • 28min
#117 Is this the end of Python virtual environments?
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Feb 6, 2019 • 18min
#116 So you want Python in a 3D graphics engine?
Topics covered in this episode:
[play:0:25] Inside python dict — an explorable explanation
[play:2:37] Embed Python in Unreal Engine 4
[play:4:32] Redirecting stdout with contextlib
[play:7:56] Panda3D
[play:10:32] Why PyPI Doesn't Know Your Projects Dependencies
[play:13:58] PyGame series
Extras
Joke
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Feb 2, 2019 • 29min
#115 Dataclass CSV reader and Nina drops by
Topics covered in this episode:
[play:1:03] Great Expectations
[play:5:01] Using CircuitPython and MicroPython to write Python for wearable electronics and embedded platforms
[play:11:58] How to Rock Python Packaging with Poetry and Briefcase
[play:14:59] awesome-python-security 🕶🐍🔐 , a collection of tools, techniques, and resources to make your Python more secure
[play:18:20] pydbg
Extras
Joke
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Jan 26, 2019 • 29min
#114 What should be in the Python standard library?
Topics covered in this episode:
[play:0:37] What should be in the Python standard library?
[play:9:00] Data Science portal for Home Assistant launched
[play:12:17] What's the future of the pandas library?
[play:16:17] PyOxidizer
[play:19:31] Working With Files in Python
[play:22:06] $ python == $ python3?
Extras
Joke
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Jan 18, 2019 • 23min
#113 Python Lands on the Windows 10 App Store
Topics covered in this episode:
[play:1:01] Advent of Code 2018 Solutions
[play:2:37] Python Lands on the Windows 10 App Store
[play:7:06] How I Built A Python Web Framework And Became An Open Source Maintainer
[play:11:46] Python maintainability score via Wily
[play:13:03] A couple fun awesome lists
[play:16:32] fastlogging
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Joke
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