

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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Nov 22, 2017 • 22min
#53 Getting started with devpi and Git Virtual FS
Topics covered in this episode:
Exploring Line Lengths in Python Packages
NumPy: Plan for dropping Python 2.7 support
How to Learn Pandas
Microsoft and GitHub team up to take Git virtual file system to macOS, Linux
Getting started with devpi
Marketing-for-Engineers
Extras
Joke
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/53

Nov 16, 2017 • 22min
#52 Call your APIs with uplink and test them in the tavern
Topics covered in this episode:
Restful API testing with Tavern
Uplink
Using json-schema for REST API endpoint tests
Live coding to music!
Weekly Python Chat
10 common beginner mistakes in Python
Extras
Joke
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Nov 9, 2017 • 22min
#51 How to make your code 80 times faster
Topics covered in this episode:
Exploring United States Policing Data with Python
How to make your code 80 times faster
Giving Open-Source Projects Life After a Developer's Death
Solar Powered Internet Connected Lawn Sprinkler Project
Talk MicroPython and Open Source Hardware at Adafruit: https://talkpython.fm/108
Some New Python Books
Anaconda Distribution 5.0 released
Extras
Joke
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Nov 2, 2017 • 19min
#50 Bundling , shipping, and protecting Python applications
Topics covered in this episode:
Think Like a Pythonista
Serpent.AI - Game Agent Framework
MkDocs
PyInstaller 3.3 released
PEX: A library and tool for generating .pex (Python EXecutable) files
Using Cython to protect a Python codebase
Extras
Joke
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Oct 25, 2017 • 26min
#49 Your technical skills are obsolete: now what?
Topics covered in this episode:
Conference videos for DjangoCon 2017 and PyGotham 2017
Python 3.6.3 released on Tue. All machines at FB are already running it (3 days)
Your technical skills are obsolete: now what?
Visualizing Garbage Collection Algorithms
pathlib — Filesystem Paths as Objects
LUMINOTH: Open source Computer Vision toolkit
Extras
Joke
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Oct 19, 2017 • 18min
#48 Garbage collection and memory management in Python
Topics covered in this episode:
The Python Graph Gallery
pynesis
Things you need to know about garbage collection in Python
WSGI Is Not Enough Anymore, part 1 and part 2
Queues in Python
Using Reflection: A Podcast About Humans Engineering
Extras
Joke
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Oct 12, 2017 • 17min
#47 PyPy now works with way more C-extensions and parking your package safely
Topics covered in this episode:
WTF Python?
Python Exercises
Exploiting misuse of Python's "pickle"
A Complete Beginner's Guide to Django
pypi-parker
Extras
Joke
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Oct 5, 2017 • 17min
#46 Spicy lecture notes and unicorn console spinners
Topics covered in this episode:
Scipy lecture notes
Building a desktop notification tool for Linux using python
Alice in Python projectland
How to teach technical concepts with cartoons
Halo: Beautiful terminal spinners in Python
Extras
Joke
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Sep 29, 2017 • 20min
#45 A really small web API and OS-level machine learning
Topics covered in this episode:
pico
High Sierra ships, first major OS with machine learning built in?
A guide to logging in Python
Let me introduce: slots
pipenv revisited
Stack Overflow gives an even closer look at developer salaries
Extras
Joke
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Sep 20, 2017 • 27min
#44 pip install malicious-code
Topics covered in this episode:
Ten Malicious Libraries Found on PyPI
PyPI migration to Warehouse is in progress
Live coding in a presentation
Notable REST / Web Frameworks
tox
flake8-tidy-imports deprecated imports
Extras
Joke
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