Welcome to another episode of the Sad Python Girls Club Podcast! This time our special guest is Graham Wheeler, the Principal Group Software Engineering Manager for the Python runtime team at Microsoft 🏃

In this episode we talk about how Graham first got started with Python, how Pylance originated, and even how Microsoft ended up with an entire team working on making CPython faster ⚡🐍

One small correction from our conversation: the Python performance improvements mentioned around the 19-minute mark is/will be available on Python 3.11 and Python 3.12.

This episode was recorded on September 9th, 2022.

A few links and resources:

Graham Wheeler @ GitHub

Player pianos 

Transcribing player piano rolls with Python

Pylance for VS Code

Pyright

Typing in Python

Python type checking @ Real Python

Type checking mode and other settings with Pylance

Typeshed

Microsoft's Python Type Stubs

Pandas stubs

Try Python inlay hints in VS Code

Jay Miller's video on Python inlay hints

Python Community News (now with 15+ episodes already!)

More about the CPython performance team work

Python in Minecraft

Python @ the Windows store

Kissing by Bliss

Intro Song: Pastel