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Talk Python To Me

A podcast on Python and related technologies


Latest episode:
#439 Pixi, A Fast Package Manager

On this episode we have Wolf Vollprecht and Ruben Arts from the pixi project here to talk about pixi, a high performance package manager for Python and other languages that actually manages Python itself too. They have a lot of interesting ideas on where Python packaging should go and are putting their time and effort behind them. Will pixi become your next package manager? Listen in to find out.
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Wolf Vollprecht
Wolf Vollprecht
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David Qiu
David Qiu
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Talking to Notebooks with Jupyter AI

We all know that LLMs and generative AI has been working its way into many products. It's Jupyter's turn to get a really awesome integration. We have David Qiu here to tell us about Jupyter AI. Jupyter AI provides a user-friendly and powerful way to apply generative AI to your notebooks. It lets you choose from many different LLM providers and models to get just the help you're looking for. And it does way more than just a chat pane in the UI. Listen to find out.

Brett Cannon
Brett Cannon
(and then)
Python = Syntactic Sugar?

Jim Crist-Harif
Jim Crist-Harif
(and finally)
Ultra High Speed Message Parsing with msgspec

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Talk Python to Me is a weekly podcast hosted by Michael Kennedy. The show covers a wide array of Python topics as well as many related topics.

The format is a casual 1-hour conversation with industry experts.

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