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Cloud bills in scientific notation News and announcements from the Python community for the week of Jul 28th, 2025

Python Bytes 442: Cloud bills in scientific notation
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w/ @brianokken.bsky.social and @mkennedy.codes

Managing large dependency trees?

uv is a Rust-powered pip replacement that is 100x faster.

Join the livestream for a live demo and migration tips!

📅 Aug 7, 11 am EST / 3 pm UTC
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#Python #uv #DevTools

Very cool, thanks!

Thanks David. Covered it this week.

Stories from Python History Why do people list to this podcast? Sure, they're looking for technical explorations of new libraries and ideas. But often it's to hear the story behind them. If that speaks to you, then I have the pe...

One of the funnest recent episodes is now out with @snarky.ca‬, @willingc.bsky.social, ‪‪@pauleveritt.org‬, @pumpichank.bsky.social, and @mkennedy.codes #python

#513: Stories from Python History

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LLM Building Blocks for Python Course Dive into LLM Building Blocks for Python, a concise 1.2-hour video course that equips you with everything you ...

Do you want to use LLMs to build your #Python based apps? We just released a new course by @koaning.bsky.social

LLM Building Blocks for Python

Get up to speed with many tips and tricks in this concise course.

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I really enjoyed this! Thank you @mkennedy.codes for inviting me on the show.

Our conversation included refactoring notebooks, testing notebook-derived code, and changing your mindset when you're moving to production code.

There's also a book giveaway - see the show notes to enter!

From Notebooks to Production Data Science Systems If you're doing data science and have mostly spent your time doing exploratory or just local development, this could be the episode for you. We are joined by Catherine Nelson to discuss techniques and...

New episode: From Notebooks to Production Data Science Systems #python #DataScience

With guest @catnelson.bsky.social and host @mkennedy.codes

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Always fun to be on @talkpython.fm! Don't forget to check out the course:

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New Theme Song: Served In A Flask Talk Python To Me brings back its irreverent intro with Served In A Flask, a geeky rap celebrating our move from Pyramid to async Flask (Quart). Listen to the track, discover the backstory of our Quar...

Talk Python has a new theme song:

Served In A Flask
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It's super fun and geeky. Hope you love the irreverent intro to the show. cc @mkennedy.codes #python

Great. I emailed you details. :)

Seth, obviously you need to come on @talkpython.fm to share this. You know that, right? :) What do you say?

GPU Programming in Pure Python If you're looking to leverage the insane power of modern GPUs for data science and ML, you might think you'll need to use some low-level programming language such as C++. But the folks over at NVIDIA ...

Interested in GPU accelerated Python? Data science? LLMs? Something else? Check out the latest @TalkPython episode with Bryce Adelstein-Lelbach and host @mkennedy.codes #python

#509: GPU Programming in Pure Python

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Deep Dives Complete: 600K Words of Talk Python Insights Every Talk Python To Me episode now sports its own 1,200‑word “deep dive,” giving listeners a quick, richly linked way to revisit key ideas without replaying the audio. With 600K words across 509 epis...

Finally, we've created deep dives for every single episode! Read about the process and how they fit with the podcast. cc @mkennedy.codes #python

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Stop with .folders in my ~/ News and announcements from the Python community for the week of Jun 9th, 2025

Episode 435: Stop with .folders in my ~/
with @mkennedy.codes and @brianokken.bsky.social
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Topics: platformdirs, poethepoet, Pandas, PyArrow, pointblank, ruff, #Python 3.14, transferring mastodon servers, web analytics, Polars

Very cool, thanks!

Exciting new course coming from @talkpython@fosstodon.org #python #llms #ai cc @mkennedy.codes

Thanks!

Program Your Own Computer with Python If you've heard the phrase 'Automate the boring things' for Python, this episode starts with that idea and takes it to another level. We have Glyph back on the podcast to talk about 'Programming YOUR ...

Very fun episode with @glyph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy and @mkennedy.codes just dropped. Give it a listen!

Program Your Own Computer with #Python

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Agentic AI Workflows with LangGraph If you want to leverage the power of LLMs in your Python apps, you would be wise to consider an agentic framework. Agentic empowers the LLMs to use tools and take further action based on what it has l...

New episode with Sydney Runkle and @mkennedy.codes #python #ai

#507: Agentic AI Workflows with LangGraph

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Dev in the Arena News and announcements from the Python community for the week of May 26th, 2025

Latest episode, #430 Dev in the Arena
with @mkennedy.codes and @brianokken.bsky.social
Topics: git, t-strings, neohtop, pyrefly, pytest, uv, Python documentary, Pocket, Raindrop, Polars, Apache Airflow, Paste
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PyCon US 2025 - YouTube PyCon US 2025 - Pittsburgh, PA

#pycon US talks are now online. Thanks for the quick turnaround. #python cc @mkennedy.codes

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This is a excellent data science course that is packed with humor. Add #polars to your toolkit! #python

Polars for Power Users Course Learn how to master Polars, the blazing-fast DataFrame library for Python. Clean, transform, and analyze big d ...

We have a brand-new #python #datascience #polars course! Please give it a look.

Polars for Power Users: Transform Your Data Analysis Game

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Roosevelt's Man in the Arena, But for Developers A playful remix of Theodore Roosevelt’s “Man in the Arena” for software developers.

Roosevelt's Man in the Arena, But for Developers

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YouTube video by Talk Python AI Dev Tools: 30% Productivity Boost or Get Unhired! #AI #DevLife #CodeTips #podcast

AI Dev Tools: 30% Productivity Boost or Get Unhired! #AI #DevLife #CodeTips #podcast #python cc @mkennedy.codes

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YouTube video by Talk Python ty: Astral's New Type Checker (Formerly Red-Knot) - Talk Python to Me Ep. 506

Learn about ty from @crmarsh.com and Carl with their latest @talkpython.fm appearance:

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Today, we’re announcing the preview release of ty, an extremely fast type checker and language server for Python, written in Rust.

In early testing, it's 10x, 50x, even 100x faster than existing type checkers. (We've seen >600x speed-ups over Mypy in some real-world projects.)

t-strings in Python (PEP 750) Python has many string formatting styles which have been added to the language over the years. Early Python used the % operator to injected formatted values into strings. And we have string.format() w...

Latest episode, just in time for #pycon with @pauleveritt.org, @davepeck.org, Jim Baker, and @mkennedy.codes #python

#505: t-strings in Python (PEP 750)

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