The Python Show

In episode 31, we welcome special guest, Matt Harrison ( @__mharrison__ ). Matt is a Python and pandas trainer and an author of more than TWELVE technical books. You will learn about the following topics in this episode: * Matt’s journey into programming and training * Things students struggle with * Hard topics to teach * AI’s effect on teaching * and much more! Links * Matt’s website - Metasnake...

We welcome Brett Slatkin as our special guest for episode 30 of The Python Show Podcast. Brett is the author of the popular book, Effective Python In this episode, we chat with Brett about the following: * Programming languages * Favorite Python modules and least favorite * Book writing * Book editing * The worst practices in software development * and much more! You can now sponsor The Python Sho...

In episode 29 of the Python Show Podcast, we welcome Anthony Shaw as our special guest. Anthony is a contributor to Real Python and the author of the book, CPython Internals . We talked about the following topics in this episode: * CPython Internals * Book writing * Projects at Microsoft * How Python’s internals have been changing * Faster Python * VS Code Pets * and more! You can follow Anthony a...

In episode 28, we welcome Rodrigo Girão Serrão ( @mathsppblog) as our special guest. Rodrigo authored the free Python book, Pydon'ts – Write elegant Python code . In this episode, we talk about: * Python content creation * Writing a Python book * Working in open source * Non-traditional hiring practices * and much more! Rodrigo also has a newsletter you can check out to learn more Python! You can...

Episode 27 of The Python Show Podcast welcomes Łukasz Langa as our guest. Łukasz is a CPython Developer in Residence, which means he works full-time on the core CPython language. He is also the creator of Black , a super popular Python code formatter. In this episode, we talked about the following topics: * Core python development * The origin of Black * YAPF and Ruff * Python, Python, Python * an...

This week we welcome Dane Hillard as our guest on The Python Show Podcast. Dane is the author of Practices of the Python Pro and Publishing Python Packages . Dane also writes for Real Python from time to time. In this episode, we talk about: * Python * Writing a book about Python * Motivations for writing a book * Advice for others who would like to write one * and much more! You can catch up with...

The 25th episode of The Python Show Podcast kicks off 2024 with special guest Kevin McAleer ( @kevsmac) , robot maker extraordinaire. Kevin teaches how to create robots with Raspberry Pis, microcontrollers, Python and more on his YouTube channel and website . In this episode, we cover the following: * Kevin’s journey to robotics and Python * Kevin’s robots * Why he does content creation * What kin...

In this week’s episode, I have a special guest, Christopher Trudeau, on the show. Christopher is an entrepreneur who trains people in Python, Django, and more. We discuss his work for Real Python, Talk Python, and many other projects. Christopher’s Links * Christopher’s company * Christopher’s Real Python profile * Talk Python Django course * Django In Action * Django-htmx The Python Show is a rea...

The Ruff linter is a Python linter written in Rust that is super fast. The people behind Ruff recently released a new tool that is a part of Ruff that allows Ruff to format your Python code using the Black rules. In this episode, I speak with Charlie Marsh, the original creator of Ruff and the founder of Astral, the company behind Ruff. In this episode, we talked about: * The Ruff formatter and li...

You may know Adam from all his work around the Django web framework. If you head to the Python Package Index (PyPI) , you will see that Adam has made or contributed to more than 80 projects! Adam recently released a new book called Boost Your Git DX Listen in as we chat about: * Book writing * Django * Python * Git * and much more! Links * Boost Your Django DX * Boost Your Git DX * Speed Up Your D...

Python has many remarkable web frameworks to choose from. Sanic is another excellent web framework and one of the first to support async programming. Sanic is built to be able to build fast and run fast. In this episode, we talk to Adam Hopkins, one of the maintainers of the Sanic web framework. We discuss the following topics: * Sanic * Other Python web frameworks * Msgspec * Mayim - The NOT ORM...

In this week’s episode of The Python Show, we welcome Steve Dower as our guest. Steve is a core CPython developer who works primarily on Python for Windows. He was also involved with the Python in Excel project. We talk about how Windows development has improved for Python programmers. Steve talks about many new improvements to the Python language on Windows. We also talk about some of the cool th...

Creating content can be challenging. In this podcast, Mike Driscoll talks a lot about content creation, especially around creating long-form content, such as books. You will learn some of Mike’s strategies and why he self-publishes versus going with a publishing company. You will also learn the pros and cons of indie vs pro publishing. Support the Show * Follow The Python Show on Twitter / X * Fol...

This week, we talk about Natural Language Processing and machine learning with our special guest, Ines Montani. Ines is the co-founder and CEO of Explosion. Links * spaCy: https://spacy.io * Prodigy: - https://prodigy.ai * Prodigy Teams (our upcoming product): https://prodigy.ai/teams * spaCy’s config system powered by Pydantic: https://explosion.ai/blog/spacy-design-concepts * Textual UI for Prod...

Do you work in cybersecurity or are you interested in doing so? Then you might be interested in listening to today’s episode with Mark Baggett. Mark is a senior Python instructor for SANS where he teaches several courses such as SEC573: Automating Information Security with Python and SEC673: Advanced Information Security Automation with Python You can connect with Mark on LinkedIn . Support the Sh...

Python 3.12 is coming out next week, so I spoke with Pablo Galindo Salgado this week. Pablo is a member of the Python Steering Council and a core Python developer. He was also the Python 3.10/3.11 release manager. Pablo also helped create Memray , a memory profiler for Python You can follow Pablo on Twitter or sponsor his open-source work on GitHub. Links * Follow The Python Show on Twitter / X *...

A text-based user interface is a great way to learn how to create user interfaces because they are much simpler to construct. Textual is a wonderful Python package that brings TUI-building into the 21st century. You no longer need to use curses to create your user interface! And with the release of Textual-web , you can also deploy your amazing Terminal applications as a web app! In this episode,...

Python has many amazing tools for working with Excel. However, today’s episode of The Python Show is all about an open-source tool called Mito that is built on top of JupyterLab , Streamlit , and Python to make automating spreadsheets easy. Mito lets you import your data from many different sources such Excel, Snowflake, pandas dataframes, SQL databases, and more. This week’s episode has the co-fo...

Have you ever wanted a Python meetup or user group near you? In this episode of The Python Show Podcast, we talk to Woody Hooten, one of the organizers of SacPy, the Sacramento, California Python group. Woody tells us how he started helping the group and became the lead organizer in the past few years. We also talk about: * Python * Tools to run a Python meetup * DEFCON * Mars Day * Gamings * and...

Today’s episode of The Python Show Podcast has my very special guest, Marlene Mhangami. Marlene is a cofounder of Zimbopy and works closely with multiple Python organizations in Zimbabwe. She is also a former vice-chair of the Python Software Foundation and a former chair of PyCon Africa You can follow Marlene on Twitter or on her YouTube channel . The Python Show is a reader-supported publication...

For this week’s episode of The Python Show Podcast, I have invited Mariya from the Python Simplified YouTube channel to come and talk to us about content creation and Python on YouTube. Mariya has more than 187,000 subscribers and a passion for Python and data science. Listen to the full episode now! Get full access to The Python Show at www.pythonshow.com/subscribe

In the 10th episode of The Python Show Podcast, we welcome Bob Belderbos to our show. Bob co-founded PyBites , a blog, code challenge, and mentoring website. This episode covers the following topics: * The PyBites origin story * The PyBites Developer Mindset / Python Mentoring Program * Entrepreneurship * and more! Get full access to The Python Show at www.pythonshow.com/subscribe

In today’s episode, we have a special guest: Al Sweigart. Al is the author of “Automating the Boring Stuff with Python” among many other books which you’ll find on https://inventwithpython.com/ Today’s episode covers the following topics: * The story behind Automating the Boring Stuff * Writing a book * All about The Recursive Book of Recursion * How will AI help us or hurt us * and much more! Get...

Today’s special guest is Misra Turp. In this episode, we discuss machine learning, AI and how it impacts teaching and learning. We also chat about her journey into programming and data science and whether you need to return to school to get into data science. Misra teaches data science and machine learning topics on her YouTube Channel . Misra also has a Hands-on Data Science Course . You can get...

Today’s episode is all about the Robyn package , a new Python web framework written in Rust. The author of Robyn, Sanskar Jethi ( @sansyrox ), is here to talk all about it in addition to Starfyre , which allows you to build reactive frontends using only Python. Listen in and learn all about how Sanskar got started with Python and what inspired him to build these amazing Python packages! Get full a...