The Python Show

Episode 27 of The Python Show Podcast welcomes Łukasz Langa as our guest.

Łukasz is a CPython Developer in Residence, which means he works full-time on the core CPython language. He is also the creator of Black, a super popular Python code formatter.

In this episode, we talked about the following topics:

* Core python development

* The origin of Black

* YAPF and Ruff

* Python, Python, Python

* and more!

Links

You can follow or connect with Łukasz at the following sites:

* X / Twitter

* Personal website

This week we welcome Dane Hillard as our guest on The Python Show Podcast. Dane is the author of Practices of the Python Pro and Publishing Python Packages.

Dane also writes for Real Python from time to time.

In this episode, we talk about:

* Python

* Writing a book about Python

* Motivations for writing a book

* Advice for others who would like to write one

* and much more!

You can catch up with Dane at the following links:

* Twitter

* GitHub

* LinkedIn

* Personal Website

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The 25th episode of The Python Show Podcast kicks off 2024 with special guest Kevin McAleer (@kevsmac), robot maker extraordinaire.

Kevin teaches how to create robots with Raspberry Pis, microcontrollers, Python and more on his YouTube channel and website.

In this episode, we cover the following:

* Kevin’s journey to robotics and Python

* Kevin’s robots

* Why he does content creation

* What kinds of robots Kevin makes

* Challenges associated with creating robots

* Creating a web server with a Raspberry Pi cluster

* and more!

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In this week’s episode, I have a special guest, Christopher Trudeau, on the show.

Christopher is an entrepreneur who trains people in Python, Django, and more. We discuss his work for Real Python, Talk Python, and many other projects.

Christopher’s Links

* Christopher’s company

* Christopher’s Real Python profile

* Talk Python Django course

* Django In Action

* Django-htmx

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The Ruff linter is a Python linter written in Rust that is super fast. The people behind Ruff recently released a new tool that is a part of Ruff that allows Ruff to format your Python code using the Black rules.

In this episode, I speak with Charlie Marsh, the original creator of Ruff and the founder of Astral, the company behind Ruff.

In this episode, we talked about:

* The Ruff formatter and linter

* How Ruff came about

* The hardest features to create

* The future of Ruff

* Python vs Rust

* and more!

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You may know Adam from all his work around the Django web framework. If you head to the Python Package Index (PyPI), you will see that Adam has made or contributed to more than 80 projects!

Adam recently released a new book called Boost Your Git DX

Listen in as we chat about:

* Book writing

* Django

* Python

* Git

* and much more!

Links

* Boost Your Django DX

* Boost Your Git DX

* Speed Up Your Django Tests

* Adam Johnson’s website

Python has many remarkable web frameworks to choose from. Sanic is another excellent web framework and one of the first to support async programming.

Sanic is built to be able to build fast and run fast.

In this episode, we talk to Adam Hopkins, one of the maintainers of the Sanic web framework.

We discuss the following topics:

* Sanic

* Other Python web frameworks

* Msgspec

* Mayim - The NOT ORM Python Hydrator

Other Links

* Adam Hopkin’s Sanic book

* Adam Hopkin’s personal website

In this week’s episode of The Python Show, we welcome Steve Dower as our guest.

Steve is a core CPython developer who works primarily on Python for Windows. He was also involved with the Python in Excel project.

We talk about how Windows development has improved for Python programmers. Steve talks about many new improvements to the Python language on Windows.

We also talk about some of the cool things that are happening with Python in Excel.

Creating content can be challenging. In this podcast, Mike Driscoll talks a lot about content creation, especially around creating long-form content, such as books.

You will learn some of Mike’s strategies and why he self-publishes versus going with a publishing company. You will also learn the pros and cons of indie vs pro publishing.

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This week, we talk about Natural Language Processing and machine learning with our special guest, Ines Montani.

Ines is the co-founder and CEO of Explosion.

Links

* spaCy: https://spacy.io

* Prodigy: - https://prodigy.ai

* Prodigy Teams (our upcoming product): https://prodigy.ai/teams

* spaCy’s config system powered by Pydantic: https://explosion.ai/blog/spacy-design-concepts

* Textual UI for Prodigy by Vincent Warmerdam: https://github.com/koaning/prodigy-tui

* Large Language Models: From Prototype to Production (EuroPython keynote):

* The Guardian case study: https://explosion.ai/blog/guardian

* Using LLMs for more efficient annotation: https://prodi.gy/features/large-language-models

* spacy-llm – Integrating LLMs into structured NLP pipelines: https://github.com/explosion/spacy-llm