Talk Python To Me

Welcome to a very special episode. This is the 100th episode of Talk Python To Me. It's the perfect chance to take a moment and look at where we have come from, and where we are going. Not just with r...

22 Feb 20171h 2min

One of the areas where Python truly shines is on the web. Many well known websites like YouTube, Pintrest, and Spotify are powered by Python. In the mid 2000's, a number of powerful and popular framew...

15 Feb 20171h 4min

One of the major areas of innovation in Python 3 is advances in async and concurrent programming. Yet, when working with any of the major web frameworks: django, flask, or pyramid, this is basically n...

8 Feb 20171h 5min

There's a whole spectrum of Python web frameworks. On one end we have the micro-frameworks like bottle, flask, and do some degree Pyramid. On the other things like Django and even CMSes like Wagtail (...

2 Feb 20171h 5min

Python is said to be a language that comes with "batteries included". That has many meanings depending on the level you're focusing on. At the lowest, it's a very rich and expressive language. Most co...

25 Jan 201752min

Google runs millions of lines of Python code. The front-end server that drives youtube.com and YouTube’s APIs is primarily written in Python, and it serves millions of requests per second!

18 Jan 201752min

Have you ever had trouble installing a package you wanted to use in your Python app? Likely it contained some odd dependency, required a compilation step, maybe even using an uncommon compiler like Fo...

11 Jan 201746min

You often hear that we need to teach computer science as a foundational skill. Why? Well I'm not sure many of the leaders pushing this forward have great answers other than jobs!

3 Jan 20171h 1min