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Python 3.14 Beta 1 is coming! And that means we reach feature freeze. BUT QUICK, there’s still time to squeeze in one last thing!## Timestamps(00:00:00) INTRO(00:01:58) PART 1: Template strings(00:07:...

6 Mai 20251h 19min

We talked about this episode for months now, and it's finally here. Garbage collection in its full glory. Classic and free-threaded. Generational and single-pass. With eager and delayed untracking. We...

17 Apr 20251h 57min

In this episode, Pablo's avoiding the topic of garbage collection by talking about his latest PEP, which allows unprecedented interaction with a running Python process. We also resolve the bet about r...

24 Mar 20251h 44min

In this asynchronous episode we're interviewing a fellow core developer Yury Selivanov to talk about asyncio's past and future, composable design, immutability, and databases you'd actually like using...

8 Mar 20252h 7min

After we talked about memory allocation in Python back in Episode 16, we're ready to complain, uh, explain reference counting. Or at least throw a bunch of reference counting facts at you. Plus a big ...

24 Jan 20251h 39min

Meet our newest member of the core developer team, Savannah! Currently at Snowflake, she also worked with development tools at Docker and Microsoft, but also flew drones over forests. In terms of CPyt...

19 Nov 20241h 45min

How does Python handle memory? Why does it need to perform custom forms of memory allocation? We talk about all that in this episode. We don't talk about Easter eggs, and we never mention Brandt by na...

29 Okt 20241h 45min

Over 40 core developers spent a week in Bellevue WA putting finishing touches on Python 3.13, planning, prototyping, and implementing features for Python 3.14. We talked to half of them. We laughed, w...

3 Okt 20241h 56min