Michael Kennedy

Portland

A Python enthusiast and entrepreneur. Host of @TalkPython and @PythonBytes, founder of Talk Python Training. Python Software Foundation Fellow.

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t-strings in Python (PEP 750)

1 month ago | talkpython.fm | Michael Kennedy

Python has many string formatting styles which have been added to the language over the years. Early Python used the % operator to injected formatted values into strings. And we have string.format() which offers several powerful styles. Both were verbose and indirect, so f-strings were added in Python 3.6. But these f-strings lacked security features (think little bobby tables) and they manifested as fully-formed strings to runtime code.
Developer Trends in 2025

1 month ago | talkpython.fm | Michael Kennedy

What trends and technologies should you be paying attention to today? Are there hot new database servers you should check out? Or will that just be a flash in the pan? I love these forward looking episodes and this one is super fun. I've put together an amazing panel: Gina Häußge, Ines Montani, Richard Campbell, and Calvin Hendryx-Parker.
The PyArrow Revolution

2 months ago | talkpython.fm | Michael Kennedy

Pandas is at a the core of virtually all data science done in Python, that is virtually all data science. Since it's beginning, Pandas has been based upon numpy. But changes are afoot to update those internals and you can now optionally use PyArrow. PyArrow comes with a ton of benefits including it's columnar format which makes answering analytical questions faster, support for a range of high performance file formats, inter-machine data streaming, faster file IO and more.
Django Ledger: Accounting with Python

2 months ago | talkpython.fm | Michael Kennedy

Do you or your company need accounting software? Well, there are plenty of SaaS products out there that you can give your data to. but maybe you also really like Django and would rather have a foundation to build your own accounting system exactly as you need for your company or your product. On this episode, we're diving into Django Ledger, created by Miguel Sanda, which can do just that.
Update on Flet: Python + Flutter UIs

Feb 21, 2025 | talkpython.fm | Michael Kennedy

As Python developers, we're incredibly lucky to have over half a million packages that we can use to build our applications with over at PyPI. However, when it comes to choosing a UI framework, the options get narrowed down very quickly. Intersect those choices with the ones that work on mobile, and you have a very short list.
We've moved to Hetzner

Nov 6, 2024 | talkpython.fm | Michael Kennedy

After almost 10 years at Digital Ocean, we’ve moved our entire infrastructure to Hetzner’s US-based data center in Virginia. This is a big change. We have over 20 different web apps, APIs, background daemons, and databases all working loosely together. Plus I have 10 years of experience running infrastructure in Digital Ocean’s cloud. Ever feel that things are getting better, faster, cheaper, but those benefits aren’t being passed along to you? That’s how I felt looking back at Digital Ocean.
Episode #408 python-preference only-managed 3.13t

Nov 4, 2024 | pythonbytes.fm | Michael Kennedy

About the showSponsored by:ScoutAPM - Django Application Performance MonitoringCodeium - Free AI Code Completion & Chat Connect with the hostsMichael: @[email protected]: @[email protected]: @[email protected] us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Monday at 10am PT. Older video versions available there too. Finally, if you want an artisanal, hand-crafted digest of every week of the show notes in email form?
Reflex Framework: Frontend, Backend, Pure Python

Oct 29, 2024 | talkpython.fm | Michael Kennedy

Let's say you want to create a web app and you know Python really well. Your first thought might be Flask or Django or even FastAPI? All good choices but there is a lot to get a full web app into production. The framework we'll talk about today, Reflex, allows you to just write Python code and it turns it into a full web app running FastAPI, NextJS, React and more plus it handles the deployment for you. It's a cool idea. Let's talk to Elvis Kahoro and Nikhil Rao from Reflex.dev.
Episode #404 The Lost Episode

Oct 7, 2024 | pythonbytes.fm | Michael Kennedy

About the showSponsored by ScoutAPM: pythonbytes.fm/scoutConnect with the hostsMichael: @[email protected]: @[email protected]: @[email protected] us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Monday at 10am PT. Older video versions available there too. Finally, if you want an artisanal, hand-crafted digest of every week of the show notes in email form? Add your name and email to our friends of the show list, we'll never share it.
When and how to start coding with kids

Sep 25, 2024 | talkpython.fm | Michael Kennedy

Learn Python with Talk Python's 270 hours of courses Do you have kids? Maybe nieces and nephews? Or maybe you work in a school environment? Maybe it's just friend's who know you're a programmer and ask about how they should go about introducing programming concepts with them. Anna-Lena Popkes is back on the show to share her research on when and how to teach kids programming.