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Technology · Michael Kennedy and Calvin Hendryx-Parker

Python Bytes

by Michael Kennedy and Calvin Hendryx-Parker

Python Bytes is a weekly podcast hosted by Michael Kennedy and Calvin Hendryx-Parker. The show is a short discussion on the headlines and noteworthy news in the Python, developer, and data science space.

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#501 A Nod to Sir-Mix-Alot

Topics covered in this episode: Nod: pause your Python program and open a notebook at any line Polars 2.0 ships: streaming engine by default, spill-to-disk, and a row-o

Oct 20
37 min

#500 Episode 500!

Topics covered in this episode: A quick chat with Brian looking back Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Brian #1: A quick chat with Brian looking back Nick

Oct 14
1 h 08 min

#499 So many questions??

Topics covered in this episode: PEP 824 brings ?? and ??= to Python for None handling Python 3.15 gets a surprise RC3, and Python 3.10 reaches end of life asyncio.shiel

Oct 6
32 min

#498 A Tiny Episode

Topics covered in this episode: MemTensor / MemoryOS PyPI package hijacked via a malicious build backend TinyMongo Jev: what to know One innocent dict read makes attrib

Sep 29
33 min

#497 Faster than light profiling

Topics covered in this episode: Tachyon: A sampling profiler ships in Python 3.15's stdlib Python Workers are now generally available on Cloudflare Flet 1.0 - build cro

Sep 23
26 min

#496 A lake house in Seattle

Topics covered in this episode: Pandas Should Go Extinct Pydantic-pint puts real-world units in your Pydantic models How Libraries Run Rust Inside Python (With PyO3) AW

Sep 15
32 min

#495 Banned

Topics covered in this episode: EuroPython 2026 videos are online The State of Django 2026: Boring is so back htmx 4.0.0 has been released 🐍 Functionally Zen Extras Jok

Sep 8
27 min

#494 Python Wrapture

Topics covered in this episode: OpenAI's Python SDK has migrated to HTTPX2 TMOG - Native Task Manager for macOS, Windows, and Linux wrapture - one wrapper for mocking,

Sep 1
28 min

#493 CalVer and LTS

Topics covered in this episode: Web UIs for your reverse proxy Wagtail 8.0 is hot off the presses RISC-V is now officially supported by CPython Django’s annual releases

Aug 26
41 min

#492 Codeberg Puts Head in Sand

Topics covered in this episode: Python 3.12.14, 3.11.16, 3.10.21 - security releases Codeberg’s AI-code ban tests its role as a GitHub alternative Brett Cannon: what's

Aug 18
39 min

#491 Feeling Judged

Topics covered in this episode: Claude Code /insights Post-quantum crypto lands in Python MCP goes stateless — and FastMCP gets renamed inshellisense - IDE style comman

Aug 12
42 min

#490 It’s a vibe coding party

Topics covered in this episode: Some more things about Django I've been enjoying Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party? Where Did All Your AI Tokens Go? AgentsView

Jul 28
37 min

#489 Or JSON?

Topics covered in this episode: django-orjson Best Django Redis configuration for speed and size Linus Torvalds puts the foot down against Anti-AI Kernel Maintainers Dj

Jul 21
30 min

#488 tau - it's 2pi and it writes code

Topics covered in this episode: The trusted-publishing debate: how to do it right vs. why you shouldn't trust it JupyterLab 4.6 and Notebook 7.6 are out! Tau – new smal

Jul 14
32 min

#487 Minimum requirements

Topics covered in this episode: dust - a better du Hermes Agent: The AI agent that grows with you llm-coding-agent 0.1a0 Extras Joke See the full show notes for this e

Jul 7
27 min

#486 underscore-underscore-ghost-emoji

Topics covered in this episode: Free-threaded Python: past, present, and future django-admin-site-search Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development A large ba

Jun 30
29 min

#485 Creating memories

Topics covered in this episode: Backup Docker volumes locally or to any S3 Pyodide 314.0 Release nb-cli: A Command-Line Interface for AI Agents and Notebook Automation

Jun 23
38 min

#484 All our tools

Topics covered in this episode: pi + superpowers Terminal: Warp.dev + OhMyZSH {Blink,kitty} + mosh + tmux Claude code MacWhisper or Handy Tailscale Extras Joke See the

Jun 16
49 min

#483 Thanks Brian

Topics covered in this episode: Vulnerability and malware checks in uv HTTP GET requests with the Python standard library Millions of AI agents imperiled by critical vu

Jun 9
28 min

#482 Mr. Beast's episode

Topics covered in this episode: CVE-2026-48710: A Maintainer's Perspective daily-stars-explorer Markdown to pdf with pandoc and typst postman2pytest Extras Joke See th

Jun 1
24 min

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Excellent podcast by two very knowledgeable gentlemen. They cover a lot of interesting topics in a short amount of time. Highly recommended. My only critique would be a request that Brian speak a bit louder. I often find myself rewinding because I couldn’t make out what he said the first time.

K rub · Aug 2024

This is a top notch podcast, I catch myself looking forward to when the new episode comes out each week. Michael and Brian are the best with great content!

JoeRecursionjoe · Jul 2023

I've been listening since the beginning. There is always a takeaway or nugget to learn. I like the new format with a guest host each week. The amount and quality of the content delivered each week is surprising! I hope they never stop!

DaButler89 · Sep 2021

If you are in the python language ecosystem I highly recommend this podcast. I have been listening for years (even though I don’t work in python anymore it has a special place in my ❤️). I would give a 4 star rating but I have knocked it down to 3 stars because the episodes have become too long. They used to be 15-20 minutes long, just the right size to be called “bytes” and that was perfect IMO. All episodes now are well over 30 minutes and sometimes I just delete those ones. I like that guests are on now a days so maybe I’m suggesting fewer things be share per episode. Thanks for the podcast Michael and Brian!

shaun.ek · Jul 2021

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