The Real Python Podcast

Mar 07 2025 243 ep. 59 mins 6.5k

The Real Python Podcast artwork

A weekly Python podcast hosted by Christopher Bailey with interviews, coding tips, and conversation with guests from the Python community. The show covers a wide range of topics including Python programming best practices, career tips, and related software development topics. Join us every Friday morning to hear what's new in the world of Python programming and become a more effective Pythonista.

Copy RSS

Subscribe on Podcast Addict

Eric Matthes: Maybe Don't Start With Unit Tests

Mar 07 2025 70 mins

Should you always start testing your code with unit tests? When does it make sense to look at integration or end-to-end testing as a first step instead? This week on the show, we speak with previous guest Eric Matthes about where to begin testing your code. Eric is the author of the popular book Python Crash Course. Early in the development of the book, he decided to introduce test

Deciphering Python Jargon & Compiling Python 1.0

Feb 28 2025 43 mins

How do you learn the terms commonly used when speaking about Python? How is the jargon similar to other programming languages? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder’s Weekly articles and projects. We discuss a Python glossary recently created by Trey Hunner. Trey describes it as an unofficial glossary and Python jargon file. We d

Telling Effective Stories With Your Python Visualizations

Feb 21 2025 69 mins

How do you make compelling visualizations that best convey the story of your data? What methods can you employ within popular Python tools to improve your plots and graphs? This week on the show, Matt Harrison returns to discuss his new book “Effective Visualization: Exploiting Matplotlib & Pandas.” As a data scientist and instructor, Matt has been teaching the conc

Behavior-Driven vs Test-Driven Development & Using Regex in Python

Feb 14 2025 57 mins

What is behavior-driven development, and how does it work alongside test-driven development? How do you communicate requirements between teams in an organization? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder’s Weekly articles and projects. In this episode, we expand on our software testing discussion from two weeks ago by adding behavio

Charlie Marsh: Accelerating Python Tooling With Ruff and uv

Feb 07 2025 90 mins

Are you looking for fast tools to lint your code and manage your projects? How is the Rust programming language being used to speed up Python tools? This week on the show, we speak with Charlie Marsh about his company, Astral, and their tools, uv and Ruff. Charlie started working on Ruff as a proof of concept, stating that Python tooling could be much faster. He had seen similar ga

Testing Your Python Code Base: Unit vs. Integration

Jan 31 2025 54 mins

What goes into creating automated tests for your Python code? Should you focus on testing the individual code sections or on how the entire system runs? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder’s Weekly articles and projects. We discuss a recent article from Semaphore about unit testing vs. integration testing. Christopher shares hi

Simon Willison: Using LLMs for Python Development

Jan 24 2025 82 mins

What are the current large language model (LLM) tools you can use to develop Python? What prompting techniques and strategies produce better results? This week on the show, we speak with Simon Willison about his LLM research and his exploration of writing Python code with these rapidly evolving tools. Simon has been researching LLMs over the past two and a half years and documentin

Principles for Considering Your Python Tooling

Jan 17 2025 46 mins

What are the principles you should consider when making decisions about which Python tools to use? What anti-patterns get in the way of making the right choices for your team? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder’s Weekly articles and projects. We discuss a recent article about effective Python developer tooling. Instead of digg

Building New Structures for Learning Python

Jan 10 2025 52 mins

What are the new ways we can teach and share our knowledge about Python? How can we improve the structure of our current offerings and build new educational resources for our audience of Python learners? This week on the show, Real Python core team members Stephen Gruppetta and Martin Breuss join us to discuss enhancements to the site and new ways to learn Python. Stephen has recen

PyCoder's Weekly 2024 Top Articles & Missing Gems

Jan 03 2025 41 mins

PyCoder’s Weekly included over 1,500 links to articles, blog posts, tutorials, and projects in 2024. Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week to help wrap it all up by sharing some highlights and uncovering a few missing gems from the pile. We share the top links that PyCoder’s readers explored this year and uncover trends across all the articles and stories. We al