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Advice for Writing Maintainable Python Code
Episode 273
What are techniques for writing maintainable Python code? How do you make your Python more readable and easier to refactor? Christopher Trudeau is ba…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Michael Kennedy: Managing Your Own Python Infrastructure
Episode 272
How do you deploy your Python application without getting locked into an expensive cloud-based service? This week on the show, Michael Kennedy from t…
6 months ago
Benchmarking Python 3.14 & Enabling Asyncio to Scale
Episode 271
How does Python 3.14 perform under a few hand-crafted benchmarks? Does the performance of asyncio scale on the free-threaded build? Christopher Trude…
6 months, 1 week ago
Evolving Teaching Python in the Classroom
Episode 270
How is teaching young students Python changing with the advent of LLMs? This week on the show, Kelly Schuster-Paredes from the Teaching Python podcas…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Python 3.14: Exploring the New Features
Episode 269
Python 3.14 is here! Christopher Trudeau returns to discuss the new version with Real Python team member Bartosz Zaczyński. This year, Bartosz coordi…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Advice on Beginning to Learn Python
Episode 268
What’s changed about learning Python over the last few years? What new techniques and updated advice should beginners have as they start their journe…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Managing Feature Flags & Comparing Python Visualization Libraries
Episode 267
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 specifi…
7 months ago
Dangers of Automatically Converting a REST API to MCP
Episode 266
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…
7 months, 1 week ago
Python App Hosting Choices & Documenting Python's History
Episode 265
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 s…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Large Language Models on the Edge of the Scaling Laws
Episode 264
What’s happening with the latest releases of large language models? Is the industry hitting the edge of the scaling laws, and do the current benchmar…
7 months, 3 weeks ago