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:

* Python Logging Book

* Python Logging Video Course

* ObjectListView3

* JupyterLab 101 Book on Kickstarter

* A book on Textual

* Updates for my ReportLab and wxPython books

* Python Papers Newsletter

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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

* Streamlit

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://www.gradio.app/

* https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/v2/guide/work-with-cdk-python.html 

* https://pynamodb.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ 

* https://kylestratis.com

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

* django-microframework

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/

* python-pillow/Pillow#1888

* https://github.com/readme/featured/nasa-ingenuity-helicopter

* Alex’s band - https://headstraightband.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

* Harlequin

* Textual

* BBC article on asyncio