core.py

Episode 17: Argparse, JIT, and balloons with Savannah Ostrowski


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Meet our newest member of the core developer team, Savannah! Currently at Snowflake, she also worked with development tools at Docker and Microsoft, but also flew drones over forests. In terms of CPython, Savannah works on argparse and the JIT, but that's not her last word.


# Timestamps


(00:00:00) INTRO

(00:01:26) PART 1: INTERVIEW WITH SAVANNAH OSTROWSKI

(00:02:12) Beginnings as a Python user

(00:04:14) Carol Willing's nudge

(00:06:55) First PR

(00:08:56) Psychological damage from asyncio

(00:11:51) Savannah at ***** Maps

(00:14:04) Chipotle Claim to Fame

(00:16:14) The most funky CPython discoveries

(00:19:06) What if you could break backwards compatibility in argparse?

(00:23:51) How do the JIT internals look to new eyes?

(00:27:33) Is Savannah team typing?

(00:33:55) Somebody's jealous

(00:37:29) Favorite PEP and least favorite PEP

(00:42:10) Big Fish

(00:52:58) Hard conversations

(01:02:31) Polska

(01:06:37) Do it scared

(01:08:14) PART 2: PR OF THE WEEK

(01:08:22) Łukasz

(01:12:01) Pabluco

(01:14:46) Savannah

(01:18:27) PART 3: WHAT'S GOING ON IN CPYTHON

(01:21:21) Features

(01:29:59) Bug fixes

(01:33:42) Performance

(01:40:12) Security

(01:43:23) OUTRO

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