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

#287 Surprising ways to use Jupyter Notebooks 07.06.2022

Topics covered in this episode: auto-py-to-exe 8 surprising ways how to use Jupyter Notebook piptrends Is it a class or a function? It's a callable! Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/287

#286 Unreasonable f-strings 03.06.2022

Topics covered in this episode: The Python GIL: Past, Present, and Future Announcing the PyOxy Python Runner The unreasonable effectiveness of f-strings and re. VERBOSE PyCharm PR Management Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/286

#285 Where we talk about UIs and Python 25.05.2022

Topics covered in this episode: libgravatar JSON to Pydantic Converter PEP 690 – Lazy Imports Two small items Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/285

#284 Spicy git for Engineers 18.05.2022

Topics covered in this episode: distinctipy Soda SQL Python in Nature Supercharging GitHub Actions with Job Summaries Language Summit is write up out AllSpice is Git for EEs Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/284

#283 The sports episode 12.05.2022

Topics covered in this episode: Pathy: a Path interface for local and cloud bucket storage Robyn Termshot When Python can’t thread: a deep-dive into the GIL’s impact Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/283

#282 Don't Embarrass Me in Front of The Wizards 03.05.2022

Topics covered in this episode: pyscript Memray from Bloomberg pytest-parallel Pooch: A friend for data files Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/282

#281 ohmyzsh + ohmyposh + mcfly + pls + nerdfonts = wow 28.04.2022

Topics covered in this episode: Take Your Github Repository To The Next Level 🚀️ Fastero Watchfiles Slipcover: Near Zero-Overhead Python Code Coverage Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/281

#280 Easy terminal scripts by sourcing your Py 21.04.2022

Topics covered in this episode: BTW, don’t make a public repo private The counter-intuitive rise of Python in scientific computing Dashboards in Python sourcepy Xonsh Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/280

#279 Autocorrect and other Git Tricks 15.04.2022

Topics covered in this episode: OpenBB wants to be an open source challenger to Bloomberg Terminal Python f-strings JSON Web Tokens @ jwt.io Autocorrect and other Git Tricks Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/279

#278 Multi-tenant Python applications 08.04.2022

Topics covered in this episode: dunk - a prettier git diff Is your Python code vulnerable to log injection? Building multi tenant applications with Django Should you pre-allocate lists in Python? mockaroo and tonic Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/278

#277 It's a Python package showdown! 02.04.2022

Topics covered in this episode: March Package Madness nbpreview strenum Code Review Guidelines for Data Science Teams Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/277

#276 Tracking cyber intruders with Jupyter and Python 23.03.2022

Topics covered in this episode: gensim.parsing.preprocessing DevDocs The Right Way To Compare Floats in Python Pypyr Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/276

#275 Airspeed velocity of an unladen astropy 16.03.2022

Topics covered in this episode: Async and await with subprocesses Typesplainer ASV perflint Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/275

#274 12 Questions You Should Be Asking of Your Dependencies 09.03.2022

Topics covered in this episode: The Adam Test: 12 Questions for New Dependencies Validate emails with email-validator The Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter Git Organized: A Better Git Flow CPython issues moving to GitHub soon MicroPython, CircuitPython and GitHub Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/274

#273 Getting dirty with __eq__(self, other) 04.03.2022

Topics covered in this episode: Physics Breakthrough as AI Successfully Controls Plasma in Nuclear Fusion Experiment PEP 680 -- tomllib: Support for Parsing TOML in the Standard Library What is a generator function? dirty-equals Commitizen Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/273

#272 The tools episode 24.02.2022

Topics covered in this episode: Why your mock still doesn’t work pls Kitty Futures and easy parallelisation pgMustard bpytop Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/272

#271 CPython: Async Task Groups in Python 3.11 16.02.2022

Topics covered in this episode: fastapi-events Ways I Use Testing as a Data Scientist py-overload Next-generation seaborn interface Compile CPython to Web Assembly Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/271

#270 Can errors really be beautiful? 10.02.2022

Topics covered in this episode: A Better Pygame Mainloop awesome sqlalchemy ThreadPoolExecutor in Python: The Complete Guide Chaining comparison operators Create Beautiful Tracebacks with Python’s Exception Hooks Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/270

#269 Get Rich and replace your cat 03.02.2022

Topics covered in this episode: rich-cli Documentation unit tests Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/269

#268 Wait, you can Google that? 27.01.2022

Topics covered in this episode: (draft) PEP 679 -- Allow parentheses in assert statements Everything I googled as a dev PyCascades 2022! Strict Python function parameters mureq - vendored requests Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/268

#267 Python on the beach 21.01.2022

Topics covered in this episode: Box: Python dictionaries with advanced dot notation access Reading tracebacks in Python Raspberry Pi: These two new devices just went live on the International Space Station Make Simple Mocks With SimpleNamespace Extra, extra, exta 3 Things You Might Not Know About Numbers in Python Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.f...

#266 Python has a glossary? 13.01.2022

Topics covered in this episode: Python glossary and FAQ Any.io Vaex : a high performance Python library for lazy Out-of-Core DataFrames Django Community Survey Results Extra, Extra, Extra, Extra: Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/266

#265 Get asizeof pympler and muppy 05.01.2022

Topics covered in this episode: Survey results Modern attrs API Yamele - A schema and validator for YAML pympler Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/265

#264 We're just playing games with Jupyter at this point 22.12.2021

Topics covered in this episode: Jupyter Games Canary Tokens A reverse chronology of some Python features Hyperactive GCs and ORMs/ODMs Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/264

#263 It’s time to stop using Python 3.6 15.12.2021

Topics covered in this episode: Django 4.0 released python-minifier It’s time to stop using Python 3.6 How to Visualize the Formula 1 Championship in Python nbdime : Jupyter Notebook Diff and Merge tools Using AI to analyse and recommend software stacks for Python apps Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/263

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