

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 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
Extras
Joke
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Jan 11, 2019 • 29min
#112 Don't use the greater than sign in programming
Topics covered in this episode:
[play:0:56] nbgrader
[play:3:22] profanity-check
[play:9:05] Python Dependencies and IoC
[play:16:59] A Gentle Introduction to Pandas
[play:18:38] Don't use the greater than sign in programming
Extras
Joke
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Jan 5, 2019 • 34min
#111 loguru: Python logging made simple
Topics covered in this episode:
[play:0:46] loguru: Python logging made (stupidly) simple
[play:6:08] Python gets a new governance model
[play:12:16] Why you should be using pathlib
[play:16:00] Altair and Altair Recipes
[play:19:43] A couple fun pytest plugins
[play:23:23] Secure 🔒 headers and cookies for Python web frameworks
Extras
Joke
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Dec 26, 2018 • 57min
#110 Python Year in Review 2018 Edition
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Dec 18, 2018 • 21min
#109 CPython byte code explorer
Topics covered in this episode:
[play:1:01] Python Descriptors Are Magical Creatures
[play:3:38] Data Science Survey 2018 JetBrains
[play:8:04] cache.py
[play:11:54] Setting up the data science tools
[play:14:03] chartify
[play:15:23] CPython byte code explorer
Extras
Joke
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Dec 11, 2018 • 22min
#108 Spilled data? Call the PyJanitor
Topics covered in this episode:
[play:0:45] pyjanitor - for cleaning data
[play:3:12] What Does It Take To Be An Expert At Python?
[play:5:38] Awesome Python Applications
[play:8:26] Django Core no more
[play:12:06] wemake django template
[play:15:16] Django Hunter
Extras
Joke
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Dec 7, 2018 • 23min
#107 Restructuring and searching data, the Python way
Topics covered in this episode:
[play:0:52] glom: restructuring data, the Python way
[play:5:31] Scientific GUI apps with TraitsUI
[play:7:49] Pampy: The Pattern Matching for Python you always dreamed of
[play:11:28] Google AI better than doctors at detecting breast cancer
[play:15:37] 2018 Advent of Code
[play:16:56] Red Hat Linux 8.0 Beta released, now (finally) updated to use Python 3.6 as default instead of 2.7
Extras
Joke
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Dec 1, 2018 • 26min
#106 Fluent query APIs on Python collections
Topics covered in this episode:
[play:0:49] Dependency Management through a DevOps Lens
[play:5:25] Plugins made simple with pluginlib
[play:8:00] How to Test Your Django App with Selenium and pytest
[play:12:40] Fluent collection APIs (flupy and asq)
[play:16:41] Guido blogging again
[play:21:33] Web apps in pure Python apps with Anvil
Extras
Joke
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Nov 23, 2018 • 24min
#105 Colorizing and Restoring Old Images with Deep Learning
Topics covered in this episode:
[play:1:32] Colorizing and Restoring Old Images with Deep Learning
[play:4:25] PlatformIO IDE for VSCode
[play:7:35] Python Data Visualization 2018: Why So Many Libraries?
[play: 11:21] coder.com - VS Code in the cloud
[play:14:20] By Welcoming Women, Python’s Founder Overcomes Closed Minds In Open Source
[play:19:40] Machine Learning Basics
Extras
Joke
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Nov 17, 2018 • 30min
#104 API Evolution the Right Way
Topics covered in this episode:
[play:4:32] wily: A Python application for tracking, reporting on timing and complexity in tests and applications.
[play:8:00] Latest VS Code has Juypter support
[play:11:17] API Evolution the Right Way
[play:16:10] PySimpleGUI now on Qt
[play:19:57] Comparison of the 7 governance PEPs
[play:23:54] Shiboken (from Qt for Python project)
Extras
Joke
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