Michael Kennedy and Calvin Hendryx-Parker

Python Bytes

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Python Bytes is a weekly podcast hosted by Michael Kennedy and Calvin Hendryx-Parker. The show is a short discussion on the headlines and noteworthy news in the Python, developer, and data science space.

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Michael Kennedy and Calvin Hendryx-Parker

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#187 Ready to find out if you're git famous? 26.06.2020 29:25

Topics covered in this episode: LEGO Mindstorms Robot Inventor supports Python Step-by-step guide to contributing on GitHub sneklang Oh sh*t git Why I don't like SemVer anymore git fame Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/187

#186 The treebeard will guard your notebook 18.06.2020 24:51

Topics covered in this episode: sidetable - Create Simple Summary Tables in Pandas tabulate treebeard - ci for notebooks Upcoming features in venv/virtualenv PEP 582 now! awesome pyproject.toml projects Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/186

#185 This code is snooping on you (a good thing!) 12.06.2020 24:39

Topics covered in this episode: MyST - Markedly Structured Text direnv Convert a Python Enum to JSON Pendulum: Python datetimes made easy PySnooper - Never use print for debugging again Fil: A New Python Memory Profiler for Data Scientists and Scientists Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/185

#184 Too many ways to wait with await? 05.06.2020 36:02

Topics covered in this episode: Waiting in asyncio virtualenv is faster than venv Latency in Asynchronous Python How to Deprecate a PyPI Package Another progress bar library: Enlighten Code Ocean Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/184

#183 Need a beautiful database editor? Look to the Bees! 29.05.2020 31:51

Topics covered in this episode: fastpages: An easy to use blogging platform, with enhanced support for Jupyter Notebooks. BeeKeeper Studio Open Source SQL Editor and Database Manager 2nd Annual Python Web Conference Mimesis - Fake Data Generator Schemathesis Finding secrets by decompiling Python bytecode in public repositories Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at...

#182 PSF Survey is out! 19.05.2020 25:52

Topics covered in this episode: PSF / JetBrains Survey Hypermodern Python Open AI Jukebox The Curious Case of Python's Context Manager nbstripout Write ups for The 2020 Python Language Summit Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/182

#181 It's time to interrogate your Python code 14.05.2020 31:02

Topics covered in this episode: interrogate: checks your code base for missing docstrings Streamlit: Turn Python Scripts into Beautiful ML Tools Why You Should Document Your Tests HoloViz project A cool new progress bar for python Awesome Panel Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/181

#180 Transactional file IO with Python and safer 08.05.2020 32:58

Topics covered in this episode: Ubuntu 20.04 is out ! Working with warnings in Python Safer file writer codespell Austin profiler Numbers in Python Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/180

#179 Guido van Rossum drops in on Python Bytes 30.04.2020 44:54

Topics covered in this episode: New governance model for the Django project missingno Announcements from the language summit. Codes of Conduct and Enforcement Myths about Indentation Parsers and LibCST Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/179

#178 Build a PyPI package from a Jupyter notebook 22.04.2020 38:18

Topics covered in this episode: Pandas-Bokeh Stop naming your python modules “utils” From 1 to 10,000 test cases in under an hour: A beginner's guide to property-based testing Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/178

#177 Coding is 90% Google searching or is it? 16.04.2020 41:43

Topics covered in this episode: Announcing a new Sponsorship Program for Python Packaging energy-usage Coding is 90% Google Searching — A Brief Note for Beginners Using WSL to Build a Python Development Environment on Windows A Pythonic Guide to SOLID Design Principles Types for Python HTTP APIs: An Instagram Story Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes....

#176 How python implements super long integers 07.04.2020 29:32

Topics covered in this episode: Quick chat about COVID 19 What the heck is pyproject.toml? Awesome Python Bytes Awesome List Publishing package distribution releases using GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows Rich text for terminals psutil: Cross-platform lib for process and system monitoring in Python How python implements super long integers Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the...

#175 Python string theory with superstring.py 01.04.2020 32:43

Topics covered in this episode: Quick chat about COVID 19. Dictionary Merging and Updating in Python 3.9 superstring New pip resolver to roll out this year Why does all() return True if the iterable is empty? pytest-monitor Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/175

#174 Happy developers use Python 3 26.03.2020 47:44

Topics covered in this episode: Quick chat about COVID 19. Documentation as a way to build Community The Django Speed Handbook: making a Django app faster dacite: simplifies creation of data classes from dictionaries How we retired Python 2 and improved developer happiness The Troublesome Active Record Pattern Types at the edges in Python Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the...

#173 Your test deserves a fluent flavor 19.03.2020 28:38

Topics covered in this episode: Advanced usage of Python requests - timeouts, retries, hooks Fluent Assertions Python in GitHub Actions VCR.py 8 Coolest Python Programming Language Features Bento Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/173

#172 Floating high above the web with Helium 13.03.2020 32:54

Topics covered in this episode: Python in Production Hynek How to cheat at unit tests with pytest and Black Goodbye Microservices: From 100s of problem children to 1 superstar Helium makes Selenium-Python 50% easier uncertainties package Personalize your python prompt Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/172

#171 Chilled out Python decorators with PEP 614 05.03.2020 34:34

Topics covered in this episode: PEP 614 – Relaxing Grammar Restrictions on Decorators Create a macOS Menu Bar App with Python (Pomodoro Timer) Conditional Coverage Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/171

#170 Visualize this: Visualizing Python's visualization ecosystem 25.02.2020 29:05

Topics covered in this episode: Python visualization graph Awesome Zen of Python Jupytext Tour of Python Itertools justpy.io Modularity for Maintenance Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/170

#169 Jupyter Notebooks natively on your iPad 19.02.2020 25:44

Topics covered in this episode: D-Tale Carnets BeeWare Podium pytest-mock-resources How James Bennet is testing in 2020 Python and PyQt: Building a GUI Desktop Calculator Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/169

#168 Race your donkey car with Python 11.02.2020 33:34

Topics covered in this episode: donkeycar RIP Pipenv: Tried Too Hard. Do what you need with pip-tools. str.casefold() Virtualenv Property-based tests for the Python standard library (and builtins) PyCon US Tutorial Schedule & Registration Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/168

#167 Cheating at Kaggle and uWSGI in prod 03.02.2020 28:30

Topics covered in this episode: clize: Turn functions into command-line interfaces How to cheat at Kaggle AI contests Configuring uWSGI for Production Deployment Thinc: A functional take on deep learning, compatible with Tensorflow, PyTorch, and MXNet pandas-vet NumPy beginner documentation Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/167

#166 Misunderstanding software clocks and time 27.01.2020 28:21

Topics covered in this episode: Amazon is now offering quantum computing as a service A quick-and-dirty guide on how to install packages for Python Say No to the no code movement What I learned going from prison to Python A real QUICK → Qt5 based gUI generator for ClicK Falsehoods programmers believe about time Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/1...

#165 Ranges as dictionary keys - oh my! 21.01.2020 28:45

Topics covered in this episode: iterators, generators, coroutines requests-toolbelt Pandas Validation qtpy pylightxl python-ranges Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/165

#164 Use type hints to build your next CLI app 16.01.2020 29:02

Topics covered in this episode: Data driven journalism via cjworkbench remi: A Platform-independent Python GUI library for your applications. Typer Effectively using Matplotlib Django Simple Task PyPI Stats at pypistats.org Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/164

#163 Meditations on the Zen of Python 09.01.2020 23:49

Topics covered in this episode: Meditations on the Zen of Python nginx raided by Russian police I'm not feeling the async pressure codetiming from Real Python Making Python Programs Blazingly Fast LocalStack Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/163