#179: Python Language Summit 2018
The Python Language Summit is a yearly gathering of around 40 or 50 developers from CPython, other Python implementations, and related projects. It is held on the first day of PyCon. Many of the decisions driving Python forward are made at this summit. On this episode you'll meet Mariatta Wijaya, Łukasz Langa and Brett Cannon, three well-known core devs to walk us through the major topics of this year's summit.
30 Sep 201850min
#178: Coverage.py
You know you should be testing your code right? How do you know whether it's *well* tested? Are you testing the right things? If you're not using code coverage, chances are is you're guessing.
21 Sep 20181h 3min
#177: Flask goes 1.0
Flask is now 8 years old and until recently had gone along pretty steady state. It had been hanging around at version 0.11 and 0.12 for some time. After a year-long effort, the web framework has now been updated to Flask 1.0.
15 Sep 20181h 2min
#176: The Python Community by the Numbers
The Python landscape is changing pretty dramatically. Python's rapid growth over the past 5 years means it doesn't look the same as the early days. On this episode, we take a deep look inside the state of the Python ecosystem with Ewa Jodlowska and Dmitry Filippov. They lead the PSF and JetBrains Python survey. And they are here to dig into the results.
10 Sep 201853min
#175: Teaching Python to network engineers
The discipline of network engineering is quickly moving towards a world where it's as much programming and automation as it is packets and ports. Join me and Hank Preston to discuss what parts of Python are important for network engineers to learn.
31 Aug 201855min
#174: Coming into Python from another Industry (part 2)
Not everyone comes to software development and Python through 4-year computer science programs at universities. This episode highlights one alternative journey into Python.
16 Aug 201851min
#173: Coming into Python from another Industry (part 1)
Not everyone comes to software development and Python through 4-year computer science programs at universities. This episode highlights one alternative journey into Python.
7 Aug 201857min
#172: Nuitka: A full Python compiler
Quick, name some ways to make your Python code faster. Did you think PyPy, the JIT-compiled version of Python? Maybe some async and await parallelism? How about Cython where you write in Python-esc language that compiles to machine instructions?
1 Aug 20181h 6min
