#347: Cinder - Specialized Python that Flies
The team at Instagram dropped a performance bomb on the Python world when they open-sourced Cider, their performance oriented fork of CPython. It contains a number of performance optimizations, includ...
8 Jan 20221h 11min
#346: 20 Recommended Packages in Review
Do you enjoy the "final 2 questions" I always ask at the end of the show? I think it's a great way to track the currents of the Python community. This episode focuses in on one of those questions: "Wh...
21 Dec 20211h 13min
#345: 10 Tips and Tools for Developer Productivity
You know that feeling when one of your developer friends or colleague tells you about some amazing tool, library, or shell environment that you never heard of that you just have to run out and try rig...
15 Dec 20211h 16min
#344: SQLAlchemy 2.0
SQLAlchemy is the most widely used ORM (Object Relational Mapper) for Python developers. It's been around since February 2006. But we might be in for the most significant release since the first one: ...
9 Dec 20211h 6min
#343: Do Excel things, get notebook Python code with Mito
Here's a question: What's the most common way to explore data? Would you say pandas and matplotlib? Maybe you went more general and said Jupyter notebooks. How about Excel, or Google Sheets, or Number...
30 Nov 20211h 6min
#342: Python in Architecture (as in actual buildings)
At PyCon 2017, Jake Vanderplas gave a great keynote where he said, "Python is a mosaic." He described how Python is stronger and growing because it's being adopted and used by people with diverse tech...
23 Nov 20211h 1min
#341: 25 Pandas Functions You Didn’t Know Existed
Do you do anything with Jupyter notebooks? If you do, there is a very good chance you're working with the pandas library. This is one of THE primary tools of anyone doing computational work or data ex...
17 Nov 202159min
#340: Time to JIT your Python with Pyjion?
Is Python slow? We touched on that question with Guido and Mark last episode. This time we welcome back friend of the show, Anthony Shaw. Here's there to share the massive amount of work he's been doi...
10 Nov 20211h 13min
