Python Bytes
Python Bytes is a weekly podcast hosted by Michael Kennedy and Brian Okken. The show is a short discussion on the headlines and noteworthy news in the Python, developer, and data science space.
Episodes
- Deprecations via warnings
- docs
- PyAtlas: interactive map of the top 10,000 Python packages on PyPI.
- Buckaroo
- Extras
- Joke
About the show
Connect with the hosts
- Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org / @mkennedy.codes (bsky)
- Brian: @brianokken@fosstodon.org / @brianokken.bsky.social
- Show: @pythonbytes@fosstodon.org / @pythonbytes.fm (bsky)
- PEP 798: Unpacking in Comprehensions
- Pandas 3.0.0rc0
- typos
- A couple testing topics
- Extras
- Joke
About the show
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- Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org / @mkennedy.codes (bsky)
- Brian: @brianokken@fosstodon...
- Advent of Code starts today
- Django 6 is coming
- Advanced, Overlooked Python Typing
- codespell
- Extras
- Joke
About the show
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- Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org / @mkennedy.codes (bsky)
- Brian: @brianokken@...
- PEP 814 – Add frozendict built-in type
- From Material for MkDocs to Zensical
- Tach
- Some Python Speedups in 3.15 and 3.16
- Extras
- Joke
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- Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org / @mkennedy.codes (bsky)
- Brian: @brian...
- Possibility of a new website for Django
- aiosqlitepool
- deptry
- browsr
- Extras
- Joke
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- Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org / @mkennedy.codes (bsky)
- Brian: @brianokken@fosstodon.org / @brianok...
- httptap
- 10 Smart Performance Hacks For Faster Python Code
- FastRTC
- Explore Python dependencies with
pipdeptreeanduv pip tree - Extras
- Joke
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- Michael: @mkenned...
- The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program
- A Binary Serializer for Pydantic Models
- T-strings: Python's Fifth String Formatting Technique?
- Cronboard
- Extras
- Joke
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- Cyclopts: A CLI library
- The future of Python web services looks GIL-free
- Free-threaded GC
- Polite lazy imports for Python package maintainers
- Extras
- Joke
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- djrest2 - A small and simple REST library for Django based on class-based views.
- Github CLI
- caniscrape - Know before you scrape. Analyze any website's anti-bot protections in seconds.
- 🐴 GittyUp
- Extras
- Joke
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- PyPI+
- uv-ship - a CLI-tool for shipping with uv
- How fast is 3.14?
- air - a new web framework built with FastAPI, Starlette, and Pydantic.
- Extras
- Joke
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- Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org...
- Python 3.14
- Free-threaded Python Library Compatibility Checker
- Claude Sonnet 4.5
- Python 3.15 will get Explicit lazy imports
- Extras
- Joke
About the show
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Connect with the hosts
- Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org / @mkennedy.codes (bsky)
- Brian: @brianokk...
- PostgreSQL 18 Released
- Testing is better than DSA (Data Structures and Algorithms)
- Pyrefly in Cursor/PyCharm/VSCode/etc
- Playwright & pytest techniques that bring me joy
- Extras
- Joke
- pandas is getting pd.col expressions
- Cline, At-Cost Agentic IDE Tooling
- uv cheatsheet
- Ducky Network UI
- Extras
- Joke
- Mozilla’s Lifeline is Safe After Judge’s Google Antitrust Ruling
- troml - suggests or fills in trove classifiers for your projects
- pqrs: Command line tool for inspecting Parquet files
- Testing for Python 3.14
- Extras
- Joke
- prek
- tinyio
- The power of Python’s print function
- Vibe Coding Fiasco: AI Agent Goes Rogue, Deletes Company's Entire Database
- Extras
- Joke
- rathole
- pre-commit: install with uv
- A good example of what functools.Placeholder from Python 3.14 allows
- Converted 160 old blog posts with AI
- Extras
- Joke
- pypistats.org was down, is now back, and there’s a CLI
- State of Python 2025
- wrapt: A Python module for decorators, wrappers and monkey patching.
- pysentry
- Extras
- Joke
- pyx - optimized backend for uv
- Litestar is worth a look
- Django remake migrations
- django-chronos
- Extras
- Joke
- Coverage.py regex pragmas
- Python of Yore
- nox-uv
- A couple Django items
- Extras
- Joke
- rumdl - A Markdown Linter written in Rust
- Coverage 7.10.0: patch
- aioboto3
- You might not need a Python class
- Extras
- Joke
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