On this episode, I meet up with Rong Lu and Katherine Kampf from Microsoft while I was at BUILD this year. We cover a bunch of topics around data science and talk about two opposing styles of data science development and related tooling: Notebooks vs Python code files and editors.

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One of the questions I often ask at the end of the show is "When you write some Python code, what editor do you use?" Increasingly the most common answer is Visual Studio Code. Despite it's Windows only namesake, Visual Studio Code is cross-platform and has been gaining a lot of traction.

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Have you ever wondered about the software stack powering Talk Python, the training website, mobile apps, video and audio delivery, and more? While at first glance it might seem pretty simple, there's quite a bit going on. We have our own custom search engines. We deliver 15-20 TB of data per month. Our course video streams from 8 locations throughout the world. Our database server is sending about 12 MBit of traffic / sec with no media in the mix. And it's all powered with Python.

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Python 3.8 is coming soon. It's scheduled for release at the end of October 2019 and you can already download test versions today. Given that Python ships on an 18-month cycle, it's time to talk about what's coming for us Python developers in the fall.

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On the last episode, we explored Pyodide. A project whose goal is to bring the CPython scientific stack to the browser via WebAssembly.

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