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The Python Show is a podcast for anyone who wants to get into the Python programming language.
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In today’s podcast, we welcome Daniel Voigt Godoy to the show. Daniel is the author of Deep Learning with PyTorch Step-by-Step among other books.
We chatted about the following topics:
* Favorite Python packages
* PyTorch
* Book writing
* and so much more!
Be sure to check out the links section to learn more about Daniel!
Links
* The binary cross-entropy post: https://towardsdatascience.com/understanding-binary-cross-entropy-log-loss-a-visual-explanation-a3ac6025181a
* The PyTorch post: https://medium.com/towards-data-science/understanding-pytorch-with-an-example-a-step-by-step-tutorial-81fc5f8c4e8e
* Daniel’s new LLM book: https://leanpub.com/finetuning
* Daniel’s books on Amazon
In this episode, we have special guest, Jason McDonald, the author of Dead Simple Python from No Starch Press.
We chatted about the following topics:
* Python packages
* Packaging in general
* Python concurrency vs parallelism
* Book writing
* What’s coming in the 2nd edition of his Python book
* and much more!
Links
Check out the following links from the show:
* Get Dead Simple Python from No Starch
* Check out Jason’s website
* You can find Jason’s fiction books here
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Imposter syndrome is a topic that some engineers and developers struggle with. It’s basically a type of self-doubt. WebMD has a good description and some good ideas for fighting self-doubt.
Ways to combat imposter syndrome:
* List out your accomplishments on a regular basis (keep it in a Google doc)
* Review the list
* If you receive compliments, record them (make a copy, write it down, take a screenshot) and store those too
* Reminder: you will never stop learning. Embrace it!
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🚨 Python devs, this one’s for you. If you’re tired of struggling with context-unaware coding tools, let me introduce you to a game-changer I’ve been exploring: Zencoder.
Here’s why it’s caught my attention:
1️⃣ Python-friendly to its core. Whether you’re building web apps, analyzing data, or automating tasks, Zencoder delivers context-aware suggestions that actually understand your project. No more “guessing” code completions. But don't worry it supports other programming languages as well!
2️⃣ Custom AI agents you can create and tweak. Imagine having a bot that automates your repetitive Python tasks—refactoring, testing, debugging—leaving you free to tackle the fun parts.
3️⃣ Natural language to code magic. Want to build a quick game for fun or a Python script in seconds? Just describe it in plain English, and Zencoder makes it happen. (Yes, it’s that good.)
I’ve also been loving how it seamlessly supports unit testing and bug fixing—a massive time-saver for clean code lovers like me.
Check out Zencoder if you’re looking for an AI assistant that actually gets Python devs:
In this episode of The Python Show Podcast, we welcome Yury Selivanov as our guest. Yury is a core CPython developer and co-founder of EdgeDB and MagicStack.
We chatted about many different topics, including the following:
* Core Python development
* EdgeDB and how it differs from relational databases
* Python without the GIL
* Python subinterpreters
* Memhive
* and more!
Links
Learn more about our guest and the topics we talked about with the following links:
* Yury’s GitHub page
* EdgeDB on GitHub
* EdgeDB’s website
* PyCon 2024 - Yury Selivanov: Overcoming GIL with subinterpreters and immutability
* An article about Memhive
In this episode of the Python Show Podcast, David Mertz is our guest. David is a prolific writer about the Python programming language. From his extremely popular IPM Developerworks articles to his multiple books on the Python language, David has been a part of the Python community for decades.
We ended up chatting about:
* The history of Python
* Book writing
* Conference speaking
* The PSF
* and more!
Show Links
* David Mertz’s website
* PyDev of the Week: David Mertz on Mouse vs Python
* David Mertz on InformIT / Pearson
I’ve been working on lots of projects this year. Here are the ones I highlighted in this episode:
* JupyterLab 101 Book on Kickstarter
* A book on Textual
* Updates for my ReportLab and wxPython books
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This week, I chatted with Channin Nantasenamat about Python and the Streamlit web framework.
Specifically, we chatted about the following topics:
* Python packages
* Streamlit
* Teaching bioinformatics
* Differences in data science disciplines
* Being a YouTuber
* and much more!
Links
* Data Professor YouTube Channel
* Follow Channin on X / Twitter
In this episode, we welcome Kyle Stratis from Real Python to the show to chat with us about computer vision and Python.
We chatted about several different topics including:
* Writing about Python on Real Python
* Data science
* Artificial intelligence
* Python packaging
* and much more!
Links
* https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/v2/guide/work-with-cdk-python.html
* https://pynamodb.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
In this episode, we welcome Will Vincent to the Python Show Podcast. Will has written several books on Django.
We chatted about all things Django and Python. Specifically, we covered the following topics:
* Favorite Python packages
* Podcasts
* Content creation
* Book writing
* Why Django versus another web framework
* AI and writing
* and more!
Links
* Follow Will on Mastodon
* Check out Will’s work on GitHub
* Learn Django with Will
* Will Vincent’s personal website
* Django News newsletter
* Django Chat podcast
In this episode, Mike has Alex Clark on the show. Alex is the leading developer of the fork of the Python Imaging Library (PIL), known as Pillow.
We chatted about the following topics:
* The origins of Pillow
* Lessons learned in open source development
* Surprising use cases for Pillow
* AI and Pillow
* and much more!
Show Links
* Django - https://www.djangoproject.com/
* Wagtail - https://wagtail.org/
* Faker - https://github.com/joke2k/faker
* django-allauth - https://allauth.org/
* django-extensions - https://github.com/django-extensions/django-extensions
* django-sql-explorer - https://www.sqlexplorer.io/
* logfire - https://pydantic.dev/logfire
* Pillow demo - https://github.com/python-pillow/pillow-demo
* https://www.jeremykun.com/2012/01/01/random-psychedelic-art/
* https://github.com/readme/featured/nasa-ingenuity-helicopter
* Alex’s band - https://headstraight4life.com/
This episode focuses on the Harlequin application, a Python SQL IDE for your terminal written using the amazing Textual package.
I was honored to have Ted Conbeer, the creator of Harlequin, on the show to discuss his creation and the other things he does with Python.
Specifically, we focused on the following topics:
* Favorite Python packages
* Origins of Harlequin
* Why program for the terminal versus a GUI
* Lessons learned in creating the tool
* Asyncio
* and more!
Links
* Textual
In this episode, I chatted with Armin Ronacher about his many amazing Python packages, such as pygments, flask, Jinja, Rye, and Click!
Specifically, we talked about the following:
* How Flask came about
* Favorite Python packages
* Python packaging
* and much more!
Links
* Sentry
* Rye
* Flask
* pygments
* Jinja
* Click
* uv
In this episode, we discuss working on several different open-source Python packages. Antonio Cuni is our guest, and he chats about his work on PyScript, pdb++, pypy, HPy, and SPy.
Listen in as we chat about Python, packages, open source, and so much more!
Show Links
Here are some of the projects we talked about in the show:
* The Invent Framework
* PyScript
* pdb++ - A drop-in replacement for pdb
* pypy - The fast, compliant, alternative Python implementation
* HPy - A better C API for Python
* SPy - Static Python
In this episode, we invite the founder of Buttondown, a Python-based Software as a Service (SaaS) application for creating and managing newsletters.
Mike Driscoll, the host of the show, chats with Justin about the following topics:
* Why he created a SaaS with Python
* Favorite Python packages or modules
* Python web frameworks
* Entrepreneurship
* AI and programming
* and more!
This week’s episode is all about Python technical training with special guest Trey Hunner! Trey not only does technical training, but he is also a content creator and author.
In this episode, we discuss the following topics:
* Technical training
* Great Python modules
* Life improvements with Python
* Automated testing with Python
* Learning strategies
* and much more!
Tune in today and listen in!
Links
* Weekly Python Tip Newsletter
* Follow Trey on X / Twitter
Episode 37 of The Python Show Podcast has special guest Mike Bayer, the creator of SQLAlchemy, Mako, and Alembic.
In this episode, we discuss the following topics:
* Python packages
* The origin of SQLAlchemy and Mako
* How databases have changed over the years
* ORMs in Python and other languages
* and much more!
Additional Info
Want to learn more about our guest, Mike Bayer? Check out the links below:
* Bayer’s website
* Bayer on GitHub
* Bayer on LinkedIn
* Bayer on Twitter / X
* Mouse vs Python - PyDev of the Week: Mike Bayer
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Episode 37 welcomes Julian Danjou as our special guest. Julien is the author of Serious Python from No Starch Press and the co-founder of Mergify.
You can connect with Julien on LinkedIn or Twitter/X.
In this episode, we discuss the following topics:
* Python packages
* Writing a book
* Publishing
* Starting a business
* Being a CEO
* and more!
Welcome to episode 35 of The Python Show Podcast. In this episode, we have special guest, Patrick Arminio (@patrick91), the creator of Strawberry GraphQL, the Python implementation of GraphQL.
We discuss the following topics:
* 1:20 - Journey into programming
* 3:57 - Favorite Python modules
* 8:18 - Strawberry GraphQL
* 19:38 - AI and open source development
* 22:58 - Conference organizing
* 38:44 - Non-technical hobbies
Links
* PyRun
This week, we welcome Sebastian Raschka as our guest on The Python Show.
Sebastian works for Lightning AI and writes the popular Ahead of AI newsletter. He is also the author of the following books:
* Machine Learning with PyTorch and Scikit-learn
* Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch)
We talked about machine learning, AI, book writing, Python and so much more!
Episode 33’s special guest is Jon Fincher from CodingNomads. Jon teaches and mentors people in Python and other topics. He also occasionally writes for Real Python.
In this podcast, we chat about the following topics:
* Jon’s journey to programming and Python
* Teaching and mentoring
* Python gaming packages
* Writing
* and much more!
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Episode 32 is another great time! This time we welcome the amazing Reuven Lerner (@reuvenmlerner).
Reuven is a corporate trainer who spends his days training people the Python programming language and the pandas package. Reuven has written a couple of books and also has three newsletters!
In this episode, we discuss:
* Python
* pandas
* AI
* Training / teaching
* Staying current in tech
* and much more!
Links
* The “Better developers” Python newsletter: https://BetterDevelopersWeekly.com
* Weekly data-analysis problems, based on current events: https://BambooWeekly.com
* Reuven’s courses and membership packages: https://LernerPython.com
* Python Workout: https://PythonWorkout.com
* Pandas Workout: https://PandasWorkout.com
* Reuven on Twitter: https://twitter.com/reuvenmlerner
* Reuven on Threads: https://www.threads.net/@reuvenlerner
* Reuven’s YouTube channel: https://YouTube.com/reuvenlerner
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
* Twitter / X - @__mharrison__.
* Effective Pandas 2 book
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 Show or one of my other endeavors. Learn more here:
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 at the following:
* GitHub
You can now sponsor The Python Show or one of my other endeavors. Learn more here:
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 now sponsor The Python Show or one of my other endeavors. Learn more here:
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
* and more!
Links
You can follow or connect with Łukasz at the following sites:
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 Dane at the following links:
* GitHub
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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 kinds of robots Kevin makes
* Challenges associated with creating robots
* Creating a web server with a Raspberry Pi cluster
* and more!
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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
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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 linter
* How Ruff came about
* The hardest features to create
* The future of Ruff
* Python vs Rust
* and more!
The Python Show is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
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
* Adam Johnson’s website
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 Python Hydrator
Other Links
* Adam Hopkin’s Sanic book
* Adam Hopkin’s personal website
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 things that are happening with Python in Excel.
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
* Follow Mike Driscoll on Twitter / X
* Python Books by Mike Driscoll
* Learn more about Python on Mouse vs Python
* Take Python Courses on Teach Me Python
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 Prodigy by Vincent Warmerdam: https://github.com/koaning/prodigy-tui
* Large Language Models: From Prototype to Production (EuroPython keynote):
* The Guardian case study: https://explosion.ai/blog/guardian
* Using LLMs for more efficient annotation: https://prodi.gy/features/large-language-models
* spacy-llm – Integrating LLMs into structured NLP pipelines: https://github.com/explosion/spacy-llm
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 Show
* Follow The Python Show on Twitter / X
* Follow Mike Driscoll on Twitter / X
* Python Books by Mike Driscoll
* Learn more about Python on Mouse vs Python
* Take Python Courses on Teach Me Python
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
* Follow Mike Driscoll on Twitter / X
* Python Books by Mike Driscoll
* Learn more about Python on Mouse vs Python
* Take Python Courses on Teach Me Python
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, we have Will McGugan, the original mastermind behind the Textual project. We discuss:
* Textual and TUIs
* Web apps
* Textual-web
* How do you make money with an open-source package
* Getting into open-source
* and more!
Related Links
* Textual documentation
* PyDev of the Week: Will McGugan
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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-founder of Mito, Jacob Diamond-Reivich and Martha Cryan, a software engineer at Mito on the show to tell us all about Mito!
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 more!
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.
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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!
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!
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!
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 50% off that course using the following code: PSHOW23 (only good for the first 50 buyers).
You can also follow Misra on Twitter. Be sure to check out Misra’s website to see her other teaching materials.
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!
Doug Farrell is the author of “The Well-Grounded Python Developer” for Manning Publishing and a contributor/writer for Real Python.
In this episode, we talk about
* How programming has changed over the past few decades
* What a well-grounded Python developer is
* The process of authoring a book
* and more!
You can catch up with Doug at any of the following sites:
* GitHub
Tarek Ziadé is the original creator of Flake8, a super popular linter that combines pep8 and PyFlakes.
Tarek has also recently created the perf8, a tool for measuring your Python code performance. You can read more about the project in the article: Perf8: Performance metrics for Python.
If you’d like to see what else Tarek is up to, you can find him on Mastodon.
Today’s special guest is Stephen Gruppetta (@s_gruppetta_ct), author of The Python Coding Book. In this podcast, we discuss Stephen’s coding journey, teaching, books, and course ideas.
Check out Stephen’s newsletter: The Python Coding Stack!
You can also check out Stephen’s home page for more on what he’s up to.
In today’s episode, I talk about many of the amazing Python graphical user interface (GUI) frameworks that you have available.
I focus primarily on desktop GUI frameworks.
Here is a list of links to the ones mentioned in this episode:
* Tkinter
* wxPython
* PyQt
* PyGTK (Note: no longer actively developed)
Simpler GUIs
* EasyGUI
Mobile GUI frameworks
* Kivy
* Toga
* PyQt
HTML-Based Desktop GUIs
* NiceGUI
* Flexx
Text-Base GUIs
* Textual
Today’s episode is about data science and Python with my guest, Akshay Pachaar!
You can follow Akshay on Twitter or befriend him on LinkedIn.
Topics covered include:
* How Akshay got into tech, data science, and Python
* Using Python in data science
* Python and maps / GIS
* Machine learning
* LLMs
* Content creation + audience growth tips
I’m always being asked how I got into the Python programming language, so I think the inaugural episode should be about that topic.
Things I mention in this episode include:
* The Mouse vs Python blog
* The wxPython GUI toolkit
* The Tkinter GUI toolkit
* The PyQt GUI toolkit
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