Michael Kennedy and Calvin Hendryx-Parker

Python Bytes

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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Technology

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pythonbytes.fm

Latest episode

Jul 7, 2026

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Episodes

#462 LinkedIn Cringe 15.12.2025

Topics covered in this episode: Deprecations via warnings docs PyAtlas: interactive map of the top 10,000 Python packages on PyPI. Buckaroo Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/462

#461 This episdoe has a typo 09.12.2025

Topics covered in this episode: PEP 798: Unpacking in Comprehensions Pandas 3.0.0rc0 typos A couple testing topics Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/461

#460 Overlooked Python Typing 01.12.2025

Topics covered in this episode: Advent of Code starts today Django 6 is coming Advanced, Overlooked Python Typing codespell Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/460

#459 Inverted dependency trees 24.11.2025

Topics covered in this episode: PEP 814 – Add frozendict built-in type From Material for MkDocs to Zensical Tach Some Python Speedups in 3.15 and 3.16 Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/459

#458 I will install Linux on your computer 17.11.2025

Topics covered in this episode: Possibility of a new website for Django aiosqlitepool deptry browsr Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/458

#457 Tapping into HTTP 11.11.2025

Topics covered in this episode: httptap 10 Smart Performance Hacks For Faster Python Code FastRTC Explore Python dependencies with pipdeptree and uv pip tree Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/457

#456 You're so wrong 03.11.2025

Topics covered in this episode: The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program A Binary Serializer for Pydantic Models T-strings: Python's Fifth String Formatting Technique? Cronboard Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/456

#455 Gilded Python and Beyond 27.10.2025

Topics covered in this episode: Cyclopts: A CLI library The future of Python web services looks GIL-free Free-threaded GC Polite lazy imports for Python package maintainers Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/455

#454 It's some form of Elvish 20.10.2025

Topics covered in this episode: djrest2 - A small and simple REST library for Django based on class-based views. Github CLI caniscrape - Know before you scrape. Analyze any website's anti-bot protections in seconds. 🐴 GittyUp Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/454

#453 Python++ 16.10.2025

Topics covered in this episode: PyPI+ uv-ship - a CLI-tool for shipping with uv How fast is 3.14? air - a new web framework built with FastAPI, Starlette, and Pydantic. Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/453

#452 pi py-day (or is it py pi-day?) 09.10.2025

Topics covered in this episode: Python 3.14 Free-threaded Python Library Compatibility Checker Claude Sonnet 4.5 Python 3.15 will get Explicit lazy imports Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/452

#451 Databases are a Fad 29.09.2025

Topics covered in this episode: PostgreSQL 18 Released Testing is better than DSA (Data Structures and Algorithms) Pyrefly in Cursor/PyCharm/VSCode/etc Playwright & pytest techniques that bring me joy Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/451

#450 At-Cost Agentic IDE Tooling 22.09.2025

Topics covered in this episode: pandas is getting pd.col expressions Cline, At-Cost Agentic IDE Tooling uv cheatsheet Ducky Network UI Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/450

#449 Suggestive Trove Classifiers 15.09.2025

Topics covered in this episode: Mozilla’s Lifeline is Safe After Judge’s Google Antitrust Ruling troml - suggests or fills in trove classifiers for your projects pqrs: Command line tool for inspecting Parquet files Testing for Python 3.14 Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/449

#448 I'm Getting the BIOS Flavor 08.09.2025

Topics covered in this episode: prek tinyio The power of Python’s print function Vibe Coding Fiasco: AI Agent Goes Rogue, Deletes Company's Entire Database Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/448

#447 Going down a rat hole 02.09.2025

Topics covered in this episode: rathole pre-commit: install with uv A good example of what functools. Placeholder from Python 3.14 allows Converted 160 old blog posts with AI Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/447

#446 State of Python 2025 25.08.2025

Topics covered in this episode: pypistats.org was down, is now back, and there’s a CLI State of Python 2025 wrapt: A Python module for decorators, wrappers and monkey patching. pysentry Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/446

#445 Auto-activate Python virtual environments for any project 18.08.2025

Topics covered in this episode: pyx - optimized backend for uv Litestar is worth a look Django remake migrations django-chronos Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/445

#444 Begone Python of Yore! 11.08.2025

Topics covered in this episode: Coverage.py regex pragmas Python of Yore nox-uv A couple Django items Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/444

#443 Patching Multiprocessing 04.08.2025

Topics covered in this episode: rumdl - A Markdown Linter written in Rust Coverage 7.10.0: patch aioboto3 You might not need a Python class Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/443

#442 Cloud bills in scientific notation 28.07.2025

Topics covered in this episode: Open Source Security work isn't “Special” uv v0.8 Extra, Extra, Extra Announcing Toad - a universal UI for agentic coding in the terminal Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/442

#441 It's Michaels All the Way Down 21.07.2025

Topics covered in this episode: Distributed sqlite follow up: Turso and Litestream PEP 792 – Project status markers in the simple index Run coverage on tests docker2exe : Convert a Docker image to an executable Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/441

#440 Can't Register for VibeCon 15.07.2025

Topics covered in this episode: Switching to direnv, Starship, and uv rqlite - Distributed SQLite DB Some Markdown Stuff Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/440

#439 That Astral Episode 07.07.2025

Topics covered in this episode: ty documentation site and uv migration guide uv build backend is now stable + other Astral news Refactoring long boolean expressions fastapi-ml-skeleton Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/439

#438 Motivation time 30.06.2025

Topics covered in this episode: Python Cheat Sheets from Trey Hunner Automatisch mureq-typed My CLI World Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/438

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