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.

Support the Show

* Follow The Python Show on Twitter / X

* Follow Mike Driscoll on Twitter / X

* Python Books by Mike Driscoll

* Learn more about Python on Mouse vs Python

* Take Python Courses on Teach Me Python

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

Do you work in cybersecurity or are you interested in doing so? Then you might be interested in listening to today’s episode with Mark Baggett.

Mark is a senior Python instructor for SANS where he teaches several courses such as SEC573: Automating Information Security with Python and SEC673: Advanced Information Security Automation with Python

You can connect with Mark on LinkedIn.

Support the Show

* Follow The Python Show on Twitter / X

* Follow Mike Driscoll on Twitter / X

* Python Books by Mike Driscoll

* Learn more about Python on Mouse vs Python

* Take Python Courses on Teach Me Python

Python 3.12 is coming out next week, so I spoke with Pablo Galindo Salgado this week. Pablo is a member of the Python Steering Council and a core Python developer. He was also the Python 3.10/3.11 release manager.

Pablo also helped create Memray, a memory profiler for Python

You can follow Pablo on Twitter or sponsor his open-source work on GitHub.

Links

* Follow The Python Show on Twitter / X

* Follow Mike Driscoll on Twitter / X

* Python Books by Mike Driscoll

* Learn more about Python on Mouse vs Python

* Take Python Courses on Teach Me Python

A text-based user interface is a great way to learn how to create user interfaces because they are much simpler to construct.

Textual is a wonderful Python package that brings TUI-building into the 21st century. You no longer need to use curses to create your user interface!

And with the release of Textual-web, you can also deploy your amazing Terminal applications as a web app!

In this episode, we have Will McGugan, the original mastermind behind the Textual project. We discuss:

* Textual and TUIs

* Web apps

* Textual-web

* How do you make money with an open-source package

* Getting into open-source

* and more!

Related Links

* Textual Paint

* Textual-web

* Textual documentation

* PyDev of the Week: Will McGugan

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Python has many amazing tools for working with Excel. However, today’s episode of The Python Show is all about an open-source tool called Mito that is built on top of JupyterLab, Streamlit, and Python to make automating spreadsheets easy.

Mito lets you import your data from many different sources such Excel, Snowflake, pandas dataframes, SQL databases, and more.

This week’s episode has the co-founder of Mito, Jacob Diamond-Reivich and Martha Cryan, a software engineer at Mito on the show to tell us all about Mito!

Have you ever wanted a Python meetup or user group near you? In this episode of The Python Show Podcast, we talk to Woody Hooten, one of the organizers of SacPy, the Sacramento, California Python group.

Woody tells us how he started helping the group and became the lead organizer in the past few years.

We also talk about:

* Python

* Tools to run a Python meetup

* DEFCON

* Mars Day

* Gamings

* and more!