The Real Python Podcast

The Real Python Podcast

A weekly Python podcast hosted by Christopher Bailey with interviews, coding tips, and conversation with guests from the Python community. The show covers a wide range of topics including Python programming best practices, career tips, and related software development topics. Join us every Friday morning to hear what's new in the world of Python programming and become a more effective Pythonista.

Episodes

Exploring Quantum Computing & Python Frameworks

December 5, 2025 • 50 mins
What are the recent advances in the field of quantum computing and high-performance computing? And what Python tools can you use to develop programs that run on quantum computers? This week on the show, Real Python author Negar Vahid discusses her tutorial, "Quantum Computing Basics With Qiskit."
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Building a FastAPI Application & Exploring Python Concurrency

November 21, 2025 • 35 mins
What are the steps to get started building a FastAPI application? What are the different types of concurrency available in Python? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects.
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Preparing Data Science Projects for Production

November 14, 2025 • 59 mins
How do you prepare your Python data science projects for production? What are the essential tools and techniques to make your code reproducible, organized, and testable? This week on the show, Khuyen Tran from CodeCut discusses her new book, "Production Ready Data Science."
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Advice for Writing Maintainable Python Code

November 7, 2025 • 54 mins
What are techniques for writing maintainable Python code? How do you make your Python more readable and easier to refactor? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects.
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Michael Kennedy: Managing Your Own Python Infrastructure

October 31, 2025 • 80 mins
How do you deploy your Python application without getting locked into an expensive cloud-based service? This week on the show, Michael Kennedy from the Talk Python podcast returns to discuss his new book, "Talk Python in Production."
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Benchmarking Python 3.14 & Enabling Asyncio to Scale

October 24, 2025 • 47 mins
How does Python 3.14 perform under a few hand-crafted benchmarks? Does the performance of asyncio scale on the free-threaded build? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects.
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Evolving Teaching Python in the Classroom

October 17, 2025 • 64 mins
How is teaching young students Python changing with the advent of LLMs? This week on the show, Kelly Schuster-Paredes from the Teaching Python podcast joins us to discuss coding and AI in the classroom.
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Python 3.14: Exploring the New Features

October 10, 2025 • 56 mins
Python 3.14 is here! Christopher Trudeau returns to discuss the new version with Real Python team member Bartosz Zaczyński. This year, Bartosz coordinated the series of preview articles with members of the Real Python team and wrote the showcase tutorial, "Python 3.14: Cool New Features for You to Try." Christopher's video course, "What's New in Python 3.14", covers the topics from the article and shows the new features in action.
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Advice on Beginning to Learn Python

October 3, 2025 • 52 mins
What's changed about learning Python over the last few years? What new techniques and updated advice should beginners have as they start their journey? This week on the show, Stephen Gruppetta and Martin Breuss return to discuss beginning to learn Python.
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Managing Feature Flags & Comparing Python Visualization Libraries

September 26, 2025 • 42 mins
What's a good way to enable or disable code paths without redeploying the software? How can you use feature flags to toggle functionality for specific users of your application? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects.
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Dangers of Automatically Converting a REST API to MCP

September 19, 2025 • 84 mins
When converting an existing REST API to the Model Context Protocol, what should you consider? What anti-patterns should you avoid to keep an AI agent’s context clean? This week on the show, Kyle Stratis returns to discuss his upcoming book, "AI Agents with MCP".
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Python App Hosting Choices & Documenting Python's History

September 12, 2025 • 43 mins
What are your options for hosting your Python application or scripts? What are the advantages of a platform as a service, container-based hosts, or setting up a virtual machine? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects.
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Large Language Models on the Edge of the Scaling Laws

September 5, 2025 • 88 mins
What's happening with the latest releases of large language models? Is the industry hitting the edge of the scaling laws, and do the current benchmarks provide reliable performance assessments? This week on the show, Jodie Burchell returns to discuss the current state of LLM releases.
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Exploring Mixin Classes in Python

August 29, 2025 • 50 mins
What is a good way to add isolated, reusable functionality to Python classes? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects.
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Travis Oliphant: SciPy, NumPy, and Fostering Scientific Python

August 22, 2025 • 71 mins
What went into developing the open-source Python tools data scientists use every day? This week on the show, we talk with Travis Oliphant about his work on SciPy, NumPy, Numba, and many other contributions to the Python scientific community.
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Selecting Inheritance or Composition in Python

August 15, 2025 • 46 mins
When considering an object-oriented programming problem, should you prefer inheritance or composition? Why wouldn't it just be simpler to use functions? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects.
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Harnessing the Power of Python Polars

August 8, 2025 • 74 mins
What are the advantages of using Polars for your Python data projects? When should you use the lazy or eager APIs, and what are the benefits of each? This week on the show, we speak with Jeroen Janssens and Thijs Nieuwdorp about their new book, _Python Polars: The Definitive Guide_.
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Design Patterns That Don't Translate to Python

August 1, 2025 • 49 mins
Do the design patterns learned in other programming languages translate to coding in Python? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects.
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Supporting the Python Package Index

July 25, 2025 • 49 mins
What goes into supporting more than 650,000 projects and nearly a million users of the Python Package Index? This week on the show, we speak with Maria Ashna about her first year as the inaugural PyPI Support Specialist.
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Comparing Real-World Python Performance Against Big O

July 11, 2025 • 45 mins
How does the performance of an algorithm hold up when you put it into a realistic context? Where might Python code defy Big O notation expectations when using a profiler? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects.
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