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The #1 Python-focused podcast covering the people and ideas in Python. Created and hosted by @mkennedy.codes. Get all the episodes at https://talkpython.fm/episodes/all

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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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14.07.2025 16:30 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

If folks are looking for a calm course on how to build Python tools that use LLMs, this one is for you.

03.07.2025 19:06 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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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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03.07.2025 15:28 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

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!

25.06.2025 22:28 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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

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18.06.2025 20:42 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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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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25.06.2025 18:15 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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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

18.06.2025 19:22 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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10 Polars Tools and Techniques To Level Up Your Data Science Are you using Polars for your data science work? Maybe you've been sticking with the tried-and-true Pandas? There are many benefits to Polars directly of course. But you might not be aware of all the ...

Latest episode with @trudeau.dev and host @mkennedy.codes on #polars #python #datascience

#510: 10 Polars Tools and Techniques To Level Up Your Data Science

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18.06.2025 19:16 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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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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12.06.2025 07:35 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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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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11.06.2025 21:22 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Exciting new course coming from @talkpython@fosstodon.org #python #llms #ai cc @mkennedy.codes

10.06.2025 20:14 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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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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06.06.2025 18:31 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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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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03.06.2025 01:57 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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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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27.05.2025 16:20 — 👍 10    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 1

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

23.05.2025 19:12 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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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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21.05.2025 20:13 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Job Wants 4 Years of FastAPI Skill – the Creator Only Has 2! 🤯 #python #fastapi
YouTube video by Talk Python Job Wants 4 Years of FastAPI Skill – the Creator Only Has 2! 🤯 #python #fastapi

Unrealistic job requirements? #python #fastapi

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16.05.2025 17:05 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
AI Dev Tools: 30% Productivity Boost or Get Unhired! #AI #DevLife #CodeTips #podcast
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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15.05.2025 18:06 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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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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13.05.2025 23:20 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 3    📌 0
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Developer Trends in 2025 What trends and technologies should you be paying attention to today? Are there hot new database servers you should check out? Or will that just be a flash in the pan? I love these forward looking epi...

Awesome new episode with a bunch of fun and smart people:

Episode #504: Developer Trends in 2025

Featuring @foosel.net, @richcampbell.bsky.social, @calvinhp.com, @inesmontani.bsky.social, and @mkennedy.codes #python

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05.05.2025 15:21 — 👍 13    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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ty: Astral's new Type Checker (formerly Red-Knot) - Talk Python Live Stream YouTube video by Talk Python

Interesting interview from @talkpython.fm with @crmarsh.com and @carljm.me on Astral’s upcoming type checker “ty” (formally red knot) www.youtube.com/live/XVwpL_c...

04.05.2025 00:43 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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The PyArrow Revolution Pandas is at a the core of virtually all data science done in Python, that is virtually all data science. Since it's beginning, Pandas has been based upon numpy. But changes are afoot to update those ...

Latest Talk Python episode with guest Reuven Lerner and host @mkennedy.codes is out. Join the PyArrow revolution with us! #python

#503: The PyArrow Revolution

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28.04.2025 17:39 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
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Django Ledger: Accounting with Python Do you or your company need accounting software? Well, there are plenty of SaaS products out there that you can give your data to. but maybe you also really like Django and would rather have a foundat...

Latest @talkpython@fosstodon.org is out with Miguel Sanda and @mkennedy.codes

#502: Django Ledger: Accounting with #Python

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21.04.2025 15:03 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Marimo - Reactive Notebooks for Python Have you ever spent an afternoon wrestling with a Jupyter notebook, hoping that you ran the cells in just the right order, only to realize your outputs were completely out of sync? Today's guest has a...

The latest @talkpython.fm is out with @akshaykagrawal.bsky.social and @mkennedy.codes . We're diving into reactive data science notebooks with Marimo. #python

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15.04.2025 14:11 — 👍 13    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 2

The episode is now out on youtube, coming to podcast channels in a few weeks. Great show, thanks Ines!

11.04.2025 03:49 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Django Simple Deploy and other DevOps Things We're sitting down with Eric Matthes, the educator, author, and developer behind Django Simple Deploy. If you've ever struggled with taking that final step of getting your Django app onto a live serve...

Here's a bit a of celebration post. I just published episode 500 of Talk Python with @ehmatthes.bsky.social and @mkennedy.codes, #python:

#500 Django Simple Deploy and other DevOps Things

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11.04.2025 03:48 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Sunsetting Search? Noticed a change in your search engine use? I definitely have and it’s a strong downward trend.

New blog post: Sunsetting Search. Does it apply to you?

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26.03.2025 20:53 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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BeeWare and the State of Python on Mobile This episode is all about Beeware, the project that working towards true native apps built on Python, especially for iOS and Android. Russell's been at this for more than a decade, and the progress is...

New episode with @freakboy3742.bsky.social and host @mkennedy.codes

#499: BeeWare and the State of Python on Mobile

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31.03.2025 14:29 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Hey Ben, yes sorry. @mkennedy.codes had it backwards. See today's @pythonbytes.fm for a comment on that.

24.03.2025 20:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Algorithms for high performance terminal apps In this episode, we welcome back Will McGugan, the creator of the wildly popular Rich library and founder of Textualize. We'll dive into Will's latest article on 'Algorithms for High Performance Termi...

Episode #498: Algorithms for high performance terminal apps, with guest @willmcgugan.bsky.social and host @mkennedy.codes

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24.03.2025 20:54 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

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