Do you know what custom GPTs are? They're configurable and shareable chat experiences with a name, logo, custom instructions, conversation starters, access to OpenAI tools, and custom API actions. And, you can build them with Python! Ian Maurer

Land Your First Data Job

15 days ago 59m 33s

Interested in data science but you're not quite working in it yet? In software, getting that very first job can truly be the hardest one to land. On this episode, we have Avery Smith from Data Career Jumpstart here to share his advice for getti

Data Pipelines with Dagster

29 days ago 58m 24s

Do you have data that you pull from external sources or is generated and appears at your digital doorstep? I bet that data needs processed, filtered, transformed, distributed, and much more. One of the biggest tools to create these data pipelin

uv - The Next Evolution in Python Packages?

Mar 13th, 2024 1h 14m

Have you ever been wait around for pip to do its thing while installing packages or syncing a virtual environment or through some higher level tool such as pip-tools? Then you'll be very excited to hear about the tool just announced from Astral

Top Quart (async Flask) Extensions

Mar 10th, 2024 55m 41s

Have you heard of Quart? It's the fully-async version of Flask created by Philip Jones who is working closely with the Flask team on these parallel projects. The TL;DR; version is that if you want to take advantage of async and await and you're

Djangonauts, Ready for Blast-Off

Mar 1st, 2024 58m 33s

Are you interested in contributing to Django? Then there is an amazing mentorship program that helps Python and Django enthusiasts, because contributes and potentially core developers of Django. It's called Djangonauts and their slogan is "wher

Versioning Web APIs in Python

Feb 22nd, 2024 1h 2m

You've built an awesome set of APIs and you have a wide array of devices and clients using them. Then you need to upgrade an end point or change them in a meaningful way. Now what? That's the conversation I dive into over the next hour with Sta

Building UIs in Python with FastUI

Feb 13th, 2024 1h 6m

Building web UIs in Python has always been in interesting proposition. On one end, we have a the full web design story with artisanal HTML and CSS. On another end there are several Python platforms that aim to the bring RAD, rapid app developme

Full-Time Open Source Devs Panel

Feb 8th, 2024 58m 46s

So you've created a Python-based open source project and it's started to take off. You're getting contributors, lots of buzz in the podcast space, and more. But you have that day job working on Java. How do you make the transition from popular

Parallel Python Apps with Sub Interpreters

Feb 3rd, 2024 1h 11m

It's an exciting time for the capabilities of Python. We have the Faster CPython initiative going strong, the recent async work, the adoption of typing and on this episode we discuss a new isolation and parallelization capability coming to Pyth

Python in Excel

Jan 26th, 2024 48m 9s

Why is Python so popular? There is plenty of room for debate on this but one solid reason is it's easy to adopt, easy to use, and caters to people who are not quite developers/data scientists but need to do some computing. Do you know where the

Inside Azure Data Centers with Mark Russinovich

Jan 19th, 2024 42m 25s

When you run your code in the cloud, how much do you know about where it runs? I mean, the hardware it runs on and the data center it runs in? There are just a couple of hyper-scale cloud providers in the world. This episode is a very unique ch

The Young Coder's Blueprint to Success

Jan 2nd, 2024 54m 59s

Are you early in your software dev or data science career? Maybe it hasn't even really started yet and you're still in school. On this episode we have Sydney Runkle who has had a ton of success in the Python space and she hasn't even graduated

Python Bytes Crossover 2023

Dec 29th, 2023 35m 15s

Special crossover episode of Python Bytes to wrap up 2023. Topics include:Michael #1: Hatch v1.8 Brian #2: svcs : A Flexible Service Locator for Python Michael #3: Steering Council 2024 Term Election Results Brian #4: Python p

Ultra High Speed Message Parsing with msgspec

Dec 14th, 2023 1h

If you're a fan of Pydantic or dataclasses, you'll definitely be interested in this episode. We are talking about a super fast data modeling and validation framework called msgspec. Some of the types in here might even be better for general pur

Python = Syntactic Sugar?

Dec 6th, 2023 1h 7m

You've probably heard the term "syntactic sugar", that is, syntax within a programming language that is designed to make things easier to read or to express. It makes the language "sweeter" for human use. It turns out Brett Cannon has spent 2 y

Talking to Notebooks with Jupyter AI

Nov 30th, 2023 58m 51s

We all know that LLMs and generative AI has been working its way into many products. It's Jupyter's turn to get a really awesome integration. We have David Qiu here to tell us about Jupyter AI. Jupyter AI provides a user-friendly and powerful w

Pixi, A Fast Package Manager

Nov 22nd, 2023 59m 3s

On this episode we have Wolf Vollprecht and Ruben Arts from the pixi project here to talk about pixi, a high performance package manager for Python and other languages that actually manages Python itself too. They have a lot of interesting idea

Celebrating JupyterLab 4 and Jupyter 7 Releases

Nov 16th, 2023 1h 4m

Jupyter Notebooks and Jupyter Lab have to be one of the most important parts of Python when it comes to bring new users to the Python ecosystem and certainly for the day to day work of data scientists and general scientists who have made some o

HTMX for Django Developers (And All of Us)

Nov 7th, 2023 1h 4m

Are you considering or struggling with replacing much of the interactivity of your Django app with frontend JavaScript frameworks? After all, your users do expect an interactive and modern app, right? Before you make a rash decision, you owe it

An Unbiased Evaluation of Environment and Packaging Tools

Nov 1st, 2023 58m 31s

How well do you know your Python packaging tools? These are things like pip which install your project's dependencies and their dependencies and so on. In this mix, we have more modern tools such as Poetry, Flit, Hatch and others. And even tool