Join me for an insightful conversation with Alex Monahan, who works on documentation, tutorials, and training at DuckDB Labs. We explore why DuckDB is gaining momentum among Python and data enthusiasts, from its in process database design to its blazingly fast, columnar architecture. We also dive...

   If you’re a Django developer, I’m sure you’ve heard so many people raving about FastAPI and Pydantic. But you really love Django and don’t want to switch. Then you might want to give Django Ninja a serious look. Django Ninja is highly inspired by FastAPI, but is also deeply integrated into Django...

   Peter Wang has been pushing Python forward since the early days of its data science roots. We’re lucky to have him back on the show. We’re going to talk about the Anaconda Toolbox for Excel as well as many other trends and topics that are hot in the Python space right now. I’m sure you’ll enjoy...

   LanceDB is a developer friendly, open source database for AI. It’s used by well known companies such as Midjourney and Character.ai. We have Chang She, the CEO and cofounder of LanceDB on to give us a look at the concept of multi modal data and how you can use LanceDB in your own Python apps. ...

   There has been a lot of changes in the low level Python space these days. The biggest has to be how many projects have rewritten core performance intensive sections in Rust. Or even the wholesale adoption of Rust for newer projects such as uv and ruff. On this episode, we dive into the tools and...

   If you are a .NET developer or work in a place that has some of those folks, wouldn’t it be great to fully leverage the entirety of PyPI with it’s almost , packages inside your .NET code But how would you do this Previous efforts have let you write Python syntax but using the full libraries...

   What do developers need to know about AppSec and building secure software We have Tanya Janca AKA SheHacksPurple on the show to tell us all about it. We talk about what developers should expect from threat modeling events as well as concrete tips for security your apps and services. Episode...

   Have you heard about HTMX We’ve discussed it a time or two on this show. We’re back with another episode on HTMX, this time with a real world success story and lessons learned. We have Sheena O’Connell on to tell us how she moved from a React Django app to pure Django with HTMX. Episode sponsors ...

   Let’s say you want to create a web app and you know Python really well. Your first thought might be Flask or Django or even FastAPI All good choices but there is a lot to get a full web app into production. The framework we’ll talk about today, Reflex, allows you to just write Python code and it...

   Do you struggle to make sure your code is always correct before you check it in What about your team members’ code That one person who never wants to run the linter Tired of dealing with tons of conflicts and spurious git changes You need git pre commit hooks. We’re lucky to have Stefanie Molin...

   Hynek has been writing and speaking on some of the most significant topics in the Python space and I’ve enjoyed his takes. So I invited him on the show to share them with all of us. This episode really epitomizes one of the reasons I launched Talk Python years ago. It’s as if we run into each...

   If you work in data science, you definitely know about data frame libraries. Pandas is certainly the most popular, but there are others such as cuDF, Modin, Polars, Dask, and more. They are all similar but definitely not the same APIs and Polars is quite different. But here’s the problem. If you...

   You’re about to launch your new app or API, or even just a big refactor of your current project. Will it stand up and deliver when you put it into production or when that big promotion goes live Or will it wither and collapse How would you know Well you would test that of course. We have Anthony...

   Do you have kids Maybe nieces and nephews Or maybe you work in a school environment Maybe it’s just friend’s who know you’re a programmer and ask about how they should go about introducing programming concepts with them. Anna Lena Popkes is back on the show to share her research on when and how...

   Do you have text that you want to process automatically Maybe you want to pull out key products or topics of conversation Maybe you want to get the sentiment The possibilities are many with this week’s topic: NLP with spaCy and Python. Our guest, Vincent D. Warmerdam, has worked on spaCy and...

   A couple of weeks ago, Charlie Marsh and the folks at Astral made another big splash with a major release of uv called uv: Unified Python packaging which has many far reaching features. We had to have Charlie on the show to give us the inside look into this development. Let’s get to it. Episode...

   Every year the core developers meet to discuss and propose the major changes and trends in Python itself. This invite only conference of about people happens inside PyCon in the US. Because it’s private, we rarely get detailed looks inside this event. On this episode, we have Seth Michael Larson...

   Python performance has come a long way in recent times. And it’s often the data scientists, with their computational algorithms and large quantities of data, who care the most about this form of performance. It’s great to have Stan Seibert back on the show to talk about Python’s performance for...

   Do you feel like ADHD is holding you back Maybe you don’t personally have ADHD but you work with folks who do and you’d like to support them better. Either way, how ADHD interplays with programming and programmers is pretty fascinating. On this episode we have Chris Ferdinandi who himself has ADHD...

   This episode turned out to be a seminal one for me. After speaking with David about the Flask ecosystem, it finally convinced me to get moving and convert talkpython.fm to Quart. You can read all about the journey in a detailed write up I did at Talk Python rewritten in Quart async Flask .With...

   If you want to get better at something, often times the path is pretty clear. If you get better at swimming, you go to the pool and practice your strokes and put in time doing the laps. If you want to get better at mountain biking, hit the trails and work on drills focusing on different aspects of...

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