The 25th episode of The Python Show Podcast kicks off 2024 with special guest Kevin McAleer (@kevsmac), robot maker extraordinaire. Kevin teaches how to create robots with Raspberry Pis, microcontrollers, Python and more on his YouTube channel and website. In this episode, we cover the following: * Kevin’s journey to robotics and Python * Kevin’s robots * Why he does content creation * What kinds of robots Kevin makes * Challenges associated with creating robots * Creating a web server with...

In this week’s episode, I have a special guest, Christopher Trudeau, on the show. Christopher is an entrepreneur who trains people in Python, Django, and more. We discuss his work for Real Python, Talk Python, and many other projects. Christopher’s Links * Christopher’s company * Christopher’s Real Python profile * Talk Python Django course * Django In Action * Django-htmx The Python Show is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or...

The Ruff linter is a Python linter written in Rust that is super fast. The people behind Ruff recently released a new tool that is a part of Ruff that allows Ruff to format your Python code using the Black rules. In this episode, I speak with Charlie Marsh, the original creator of Ruff and the founder of Astral, the company behind Ruff. In this episode, we talked about: * The Ruff formatter and linter * How Ruff came about * The hardest features to create * The future of Ruff * Python vs...

You may know Adam from all his work around the Django web framework. If you head to the Python Package Index (PyPI), you will see that Adam has made or contributed to more than 80 projects! Adam recently released a new book called Boost Your Git DX Listen in as we chat about: * Book writing * Django * Python * Git * and much more! Links * Boost Your Django DX * Boost Your Git DX * Speed Up Your Django Tests * Adam Johnson’s website Get full access to The Python Show at...

Python has many remarkable web frameworks to choose from. Sanic is another excellent web framework and one of the first to support async programming. Sanic is built to be able to build fast and run fast. In this episode, we talk to Adam Hopkins, one of the maintainers of the Sanic web framework. We discuss the following topics: * Sanic * Other Python web frameworks * Msgspec * Mayim - The NOT ORM Python Hydrator Other Links * Adam Hopkin’s Sanic book * Adam Hopkin’s personal website   ...

In this week’s episode of The Python Show, we welcome Steve Dower as our guest. Steve is a core CPython developer who works primarily on Python for Windows. He was also involved with the Python in Excel project. We talk about how Windows development has improved for Python programmers. Steve talks about many new improvements to the Python language on Windows. We also talk about some of the cool things that are happening with Python in Excel. Get full access to The Python Show at...

Creating content can be challenging. In this podcast, Mike Driscoll talks a lot about content creation, especially around creating long-form content, such as books. You will learn some of Mike’s strategies and why he self-publishes versus going with a publishing company. You will also learn the pros and cons of indie vs pro publishing. Support the Show * Follow The Python Show on Twitter / X * Follow Mike Driscoll on Twitter / X * Python Books by Mike Driscoll * Learn more about Python on...

This week, we talk about Natural Language Processing and machine learning with our special guest, Ines Montani. Ines is the co-founder and CEO of Explosion. Links * spaCy: https://spacy.io * Prodigy: - https://prodigy.ai * Prodigy Teams (our upcoming product): https://prodigy.ai/teams * spaCy’s config system powered by Pydantic: https://explosion.ai/blog/spacy-design-concepts * Textual UI for Prodigy by Vincent Warmerdam: https://github.com/koaning/prodigy-tui * Large Language Models: From...

Do you work in cybersecurity or are you interested in doing so? Then you might be interested in listening to today’s episode with Mark Baggett. Mark is a senior Python instructor for SANS where he teaches several courses such as SEC573: Automating Information Security with Python and SEC673: Advanced Information Security Automation with Python You can connect with Mark on LinkedIn. Support the Show * Follow The Python Show on Twitter / X * Follow Mike Driscoll on Twitter / X * Python Books by...

Python 3.12 is coming out next week, so I spoke with Pablo Galindo Salgado this week. Pablo is a member of the Python Steering Council and a core Python developer. He was also the Python 3.10/3.11 release manager. Pablo also helped create Memray, a memory profiler for Python You can follow Pablo on Twitter or sponsor his open-source work on GitHub. Links * Follow The Python Show on Twitter / X * Follow Mike Driscoll on Twitter / X * Python Books by Mike Driscoll * Learn more about Python on...

A text-based user interface is a great way to learn how to create user interfaces because they are much simpler to construct. Textual is a wonderful Python package that brings TUI-building into the 21st century. You no longer need to use curses to create your user interface! And with the release of Textual-web, you can also deploy your amazing Terminal applications as a web app! In this episode, we have Will McGugan, the original mastermind behind the Textual project. We discuss: * Textual...

Python has many amazing tools for working with Excel. However, today’s episode of The Python Show is all about an open-source tool called Mito that is built on top of JupyterLab, Streamlit, and Python to make automating spreadsheets easy. Mito lets you import your data from many different sources such Excel, Snowflake, pandas dataframes, SQL databases, and more. This week’s episode has the co-founder of Mito, Jacob Diamond-Reivich and Martha Cryan, a software engineer at Mito on the show to...

Have you ever wanted a Python meetup or user group near you? In this episode of The Python Show Podcast, we talk to Woody Hooten, one of the organizers of SacPy, the Sacramento, California Python group. Woody tells us how he started helping the group and became the lead organizer in the past few years. We also talk about: * Python * Tools to run a Python meetup * DEFCON * Mars Day * Gamings * and more! Get full access to The Python Show at www.pythonshow.com/subscribe

Today’s episode of The Python Show Podcast has my very special guest, Marlene Mhangami. Marlene is a cofounder of Zimbopy and works closely with multiple Python organizations in Zimbabwe. She is also a former vice-chair of the Python Software Foundation and a former chair of PyCon Africa You can follow Marlene on Twitter or on her YouTube channel. The Python Show is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get...

For this week’s episode of The Python Show Podcast, I have invited Mariya from the Python Simplified YouTube channel to come and talk to us about content creation and Python on YouTube. Mariya has more than 187,000 subscribers and a passion for Python and data science. Listen to the full episode now! Get full access to The Python Show at www.pythonshow.com/subscribe

In the 10th episode of The Python Show Podcast, we welcome Bob Belderbos to our show. Bob co-founded PyBites, a blog, code challenge, and mentoring website. This episode covers the following topics: * The PyBites origin story * The PyBites Developer Mindset / Python Mentoring Program * Entrepreneurship * and more! Get full access to The Python Show at www.pythonshow.com/subscribe

In today’s episode, we have a special guest: Al Sweigart. Al is the author of “Automating the Boring Stuff with Python” among many other books which you’ll find on https://inventwithpython.com/ Today’s episode covers the following topics: * The story behind Automating the Boring Stuff * Writing a book * All about The Recursive Book of Recursion * How will AI help us or hurt us * and much more! Get full access to The Python Show at www.pythonshow.com/subscribe

Today’s special guest is Misra Turp. In this episode, we discuss machine learning, AI and how it impacts teaching and learning. We also chat about her journey into programming and data science and whether you need to return to school to get into data science. Misra teaches data science and machine learning topics on her YouTube Channel. Misra also has a Hands-on Data Science Course. You can get 50% off that course using the following code: PSHOW23 (only good for the first 50 buyers). You can...

Today’s episode is all about the Robyn package, a new Python web framework written in Rust. The author of Robyn, Sanskar Jethi (@sansyrox), is here to talk all about it in addition to Starfyre, which allows you to build reactive frontends using only Python. Listen in and learn all about how Sanskar got started with Python and what inspired him to build these amazing Python packages! Get full access to The Python Show at www.pythonshow.com/subscribe

Doug Farrell is the author of “The Well-Grounded Python Developer” for Manning Publishing and a contributor/writer for Real Python. In this episode, we talk about * How programming has changed over the past few decades * What a well-grounded Python developer is * The process of authoring a book * and more! You can catch up with Doug at any of the following sites: * Twitter * GitHub * Personal Website Get full access to The Python Show at www.pythonshow.com/subscribe

Tarek Ziadé is the original creator of Flake8, a super popular linter that combines pep8 and PyFlakes. Tarek has also recently created the perf8, a tool for measuring your Python code performance. You can read more about the project in the article: Perf8: Performance metrics for Python. If you’d like to see what else Tarek is up to, you can find him on Mastodon. Get full access to The Python Show at www.pythonshow.com/subscribe

Today’s special guest is Stephen Gruppetta (@s_gruppetta_ct), author of The Python Coding Book. In this podcast, we discuss Stephen’s coding journey, teaching, books, and course ideas. Check out Stephen’s newsletter: The Python Coding Stack! You can also check out Stephen’s home page for more on what he’s up to. Get full access to The Python Show at www.pythonshow.com/subscribe

In today’s episode, I talk about many of the amazing Python graphical user interface (GUI) frameworks that you have available. I focus primarily on desktop GUI frameworks. Here is a list of links to the ones mentioned in this episode: * Tkinter * wxPython * PyQt * Qt for Python (AKA PySide) * PyGTK (Note: no longer actively developed) * DearPyGUI Simpler GUIs * CustomTkinter * PySimpleGUI * EasyGUI Mobile GUI frameworks * Kivy * Toga * PyQt HTML-Based Desktop GUIs * NiceGUI * Flexx Text-Base...

Today’s episode is about data science and Python with my guest, Akshay Pachaar! You can follow Akshay on Twitter or befriend him on LinkedIn. Topics covered include: * How Akshay got into tech, data science, and Python * Using Python in data science * Python and maps / GIS * Machine learning * LLMs * Content creation + audience growth tips Get full access to The Python Show at www.pythonshow.com/subscribe

I’m always being asked how I got into the Python programming language, so I think the inaugural episode should be about that topic. Things I mention in this episode include: * The Mouse vs Python blog * Planet Python * The wxPython GUI toolkit * The Tkinter GUI toolkit * The PyQt GUI toolkit Get full access to The Python Show at www.pythonshow.com/subscribe