Episodes

  • Michael Kennedy: Managing Your Own Python Infrastructure

    Michael Kennedy: Managing Your Own Python Infrastructure
    Oct 31 2025
    How do you deploy your Python application without getting locked into an expensive cloud-based service? This week on the show, Michael Kennedy from the Talk Python podcast returns to discuss his new book, "Talk Python in Production."
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    1 hr and 20 mins
  • Benchmarking Python 3.14 & Enabling Asyncio to Scale

    Benchmarking Python 3.14 & Enabling Asyncio to Scale
    Oct 24 2025
    How does Python 3.14 perform under a few hand-crafted benchmarks? Does the performance of asyncio scale on the free-threaded build? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects.
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    47 mins
  • Evolving Teaching Python in the Classroom

    Evolving Teaching Python in the Classroom
    Oct 17 2025
    How is teaching young students Python changing with the advent of LLMs? This week on the show, Kelly Schuster-Paredes from the Teaching Python podcast joins us to discuss coding and AI in the classroom.
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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • Python 3.14: Exploring the New Features

    Python 3.14: Exploring the New Features
    Oct 10 2025
    Python 3.14 is here! Christopher Trudeau returns to discuss the new version with Real Python team member Bartosz Zaczyński. This year, Bartosz coordinated the series of preview articles with members of the Real Python team and wrote the showcase tutorial, "Python 3.14: Cool New Features for You to Try." Christopher's video course, "What's New in Python 3.14", covers the topics from the article and shows the new features in action.
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    56 mins
  • Advice on Beginning to Learn Python

    Advice on Beginning to Learn Python
    Oct 3 2025
    What's changed about learning Python over the last few years? What new techniques and updated advice should beginners have as they start their journey? This week on the show, Stephen Gruppetta and Martin Breuss return to discuss beginning to learn Python.
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    52 mins
  • Managing Feature Flags & Comparing Python Visualization Libraries

    Managing Feature Flags & Comparing Python Visualization Libraries
    Sep 26 2025
    What's a good way to enable or disable code paths without redeploying the software? How can you use feature flags to toggle functionality for specific users of your application? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects.
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    42 mins
  • Dangers of Automatically Converting a REST API to MCP

    Dangers of Automatically Converting a REST API to MCP
    Sep 19 2025
    When converting an existing REST API to the Model Context Protocol, what should you consider? What anti-patterns should you avoid to keep an AI agent’s context clean? This week on the show, Kyle Stratis returns to discuss his upcoming book, "AI Agents with MCP".
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    1 hr and 24 mins
  • Python App Hosting Choices & Documenting Python's History

    Python App Hosting Choices & Documenting Python's History
    Sep 12 2025
    What are your options for hosting your Python application or scripts? What are the advantages of a platform as a service, container-based hosts, or setting up a virtual machine? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects.
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    44 mins