A Little Bit of Python
By Steve Holden
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Podcast Description
Panel discussions about the latest news from the Python development community. Episodes are 20-60 minutes long.
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17: Interview with Armin Rigo of PyPy | An interview with Armin Rigo of the PyPy interpreter project, recorded at the January 2011 PyPy sprint. | 4/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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16: A Conversation at EuroPython | A discussion from the restaurant at EuroPython; pour yourself a glass of something before listening. | 11/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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15: Python 2.7 and 3; new conference videos; unittest2; Visual Studio support for IronPython | A 15-minute grab-bag episode: * Python 2.7 final released. * Python 3's status. * New conference videos released (http://pyconau.blip.tv; http://kiwipycon.blip.tv; http://scipy.org). * The unittest2 module. * Visual Studio to gain IronPython support. | 7/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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14: An interview with Christian Tismer, the creator of Stackless. Discussion on topics including Stackless, psyco and PyPy. | A 16 minute interview between Michael Foord and Christian Tismer, recorded at PyCon 2010. Christian Tismer is a long standing member of the Python community and, amongst other things, he is the original creator of Stackless and has worked on both psyco and PyPy. In this interview we discuss all of these projects, both their history and what the future holds for them. | 6/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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13: 2.7; PEP 3147; Summer of Code; SEC Mandating Python?; Dr Tim Couper; Funding Python; Beginners on Windows. | Several topics are covered in this 40-minute episode: * Python 2.7 beta 1 released. * PEP 3147: New bytecode directory layout. * Google's Summer of Code beginning. * SEC proposes mandating Python's use in financial filings. * PyCon interview: Dr Tim Couper * How to Fund Python Development * Python for Beginners: Getting started on Windows. | 5/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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12: Global Interpreter Lock; Concurrency | We discuss the significance of the Global Interpreter Lock (or GIL) and recent work at improving it, PEP 3148 proposing futures as a new asynchronous execution method, some recent IronPython work, and a new Python podcast. | 4/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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11: Interview with Antoine Pitrou | An interview recorded at PyCon 2010, Atlanta, with Antoine Pitrou. Antoine Pitrou is the core CPython developer responsible for creating the "new-GIL". | 4/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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10: Interview with Richard Jones | Richard Jones organizes the PyWeek game programming challenge (http://www.pyweek.org/). Richard and Andrew discuss how the challenge is run, what sort of games people write, and the libraries that are used. | 3/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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9: Bits of News | We discuss a variety of recent news items: some recent CPython changes, the new PyPy 1.2 release, crypto support and Debian packaging for IronPython, the PyWeek game programming contest, upcoming conference plans, and upcoming podcast plans. | 3/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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8: Interview: Mark Shuttleworth | Steve Holden interviews Mark Shuttleworth, founder of the Ubuntu project and a keynote speaker at PyCon 2010. | 3/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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7: Unladen Swallow | PEP 3146 proposes that the Unladen Swallow branch, which adds a just-in-time compiler to Python, be merged into the main Python repository. We discuss what Unladen Swallow does, and what impact it's likely to have. | 3/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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6: Interview: Van Lindberg | Michael Foord interviews Van Lindberg, conference chair for PyCon 2010 in Atlanta GA, on the success of the conference, plans for the 2011 Atlanta conference, and his work as an intellectual-property lawyer. | 3/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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5: New Features in Python 2.7 | We discuss a few of the new features in Python 2.7. | 2/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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4: What To Do At PyCon | We discuss the features of the upcoming PyCon conference, and how to take best advantage of the event. | 2/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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3: Mercurial Transition / Python 2.7 alpha 1 / Comments on the Python Package Index | We cover the status of the transition to using Mercurial for the Python source code, the first alpha release of Python 2.7, and the recent controversy over adding commenting to the Python Package Index. | 1/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2: Selecting Talks for PyCon 2010 | In this episode, we discuss how talks were selected for the upcoming PyCon conference, and what else is being planned. | 12/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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1: Python Language Moratorium / Python 2.7 End of the Line? | A round-table discussion of the moratorium on Python language development and whether Python 2.7 will be the last of the 2.x series. | 11/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 17 Episodes |
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