October 20, 2025

#454 It's some form of Elvish

29 minutes

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

Watch on YouTube

About the show

Sponsored by us! Support our work through:

Our courses at Talk Python Training

The Complete pytest Course

Patreon Supporters

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Brian: @[email protected] / @brianokken.bsky.social

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Brian #1: djrest2 - A small and simple REST library for Django based on class-based views.

Emma Levit

Based on an interesting blog post

Why, in 2025, do we still need a 3rd party app to write a REST API with Django?

As opposed to using DRF or Django Ninja

Michael #2: Github CLI

GitHub’s official command line tool

Features

Checking out a pull request locally

You can clone any repository using OWNER/REPO syntax: gh repo clone cli/cli

Create a pull request interactively: gh pr create

See all at cli.github.com/manual/examples

Brian #3: caniscrape - Know before you scrape. Analyze any website's anti-bot protections in seconds.

reddit announcement and discussion

caniscrape checks a website for common anti-bot mechanisms and reports:

A difficulty score (0–10)

Which protections are active (e.g., Cloudflare, Akamai, hCaptcha, etc.)

What tools you’ll likely need (headless browsers, proxies, CAPTCHA solvers, etc.)

Whether using a scraping API might be better

This helps you decide the right scraping approach before you waste time building a bot that keeps getting blocked.

Michael #4: 🐴 GittyUp

Never forget to pull again: Automatically discover and update all your Git repositories with one command.

Built initially to solve this problem

Rebuilt and published last week as part of my upcoming Agentic AI Programming for Python course. Get notified this week at training.talkpython.fm/getnotified

Update everything in a folder tree with gittyup

Review changes, blockers, etc with gittyup --explain

Extras

Brian:

Three times faster with lazy imports - Hugo van Kemenade

Interesting discussion on Hugo’s post - on Mastodon

Use lazy module imports now - Graham Dumpleton

Graham’s post uses wrapt, a “module for decorators, wrappers and monkey patching”, to simulate lazy imports

Helpful comment from Adam Johnson on Graham’s post to actually do the import during type checking using if TYPE_CHECKING: import ...

Michael:

uvloop is back!

pypi+ listened. :)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1o9dey5/i_just_released_pypipluscom_20_offlineready/

Feedback from my “Show me your ls” post.

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October 20, 2025

#454 It's some form of Elvish

29 minutes

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

Watch on YouTube

About the show

Sponsored by us! Support our work through:

Our courses at Talk Python Training

The Complete pytest Course

Patreon Supporters

Connect with the hosts

Michael: @[email protected] / @mkennedy.codes (bsky)

Brian: @[email protected] / @brianokken.bsky.social

Show: @[email protected] / @pythonbytes.fm (bsky)

Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Monday at 10am PT. Older video versions available there too.

Finally, if you want an artisanal, hand-crafted digest of every week of the show notes in email form? Add your name and email to our friends of the show list, we'll never share it.

Brian #1: djrest2 - A small and simple REST library for Django based on class-based views.

Emma Levit

Based on an interesting blog post

Why, in 2025, do we still need a 3rd party app to write a REST API with Django?

As opposed to using DRF or Django Ninja

Michael #2: Github CLI

GitHub’s official command line tool

Features

Checking out a pull request locally

You can clone any repository using OWNER/REPO syntax: gh repo clone cli/cli

Create a pull request interactively: gh pr create

See all at cli.github.com/manual/examples

Brian #3: caniscrape - Know before you scrape. Analyze any website's anti-bot protections in seconds.

reddit announcement and discussion

caniscrape checks a website for common anti-bot mechanisms and reports:

A difficulty score (0–10)

Which protections are active (e.g., Cloudflare, Akamai, hCaptcha, etc.)

What tools you’ll likely need (headless browsers, proxies, CAPTCHA solvers, etc.)

Whether using a scraping API might be better

This helps you decide the right scraping approach before you waste time building a bot that keeps getting blocked.

Michael #4: 🐴 GittyUp

Never forget to pull again: Automatically discover and update all your Git repositories with one command.

Built initially to solve this problem

Rebuilt and published last week as part of my upcoming Agentic AI Programming for Python course. Get notified this week at training.talkpython.fm/getnotified

Update everything in a folder tree with gittyup

Review changes, blockers, etc with gittyup --explain

Extras

Brian:

Three times faster with lazy imports - Hugo van Kemenade

Interesting discussion on Hugo’s post - on Mastodon

Use lazy module imports now - Graham Dumpleton

Graham’s post uses wrapt, a “module for decorators, wrappers and monkey patching”, to simulate lazy imports

Helpful comment from Adam Johnson on Graham’s post to actually do the import during type checking using if TYPE_CHECKING: import ...

Michael:

uvloop is back!

pypi+ listened. :)