A Little Bit of Python
Panel discussions about the latest news in Python's development.
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17: Interview with Armin Rigo of PyPy
An interview with Armin Rigo of the PyPy interpreter project, ...
An interview with Armin Rigo of the PyPy interpreter project, recorded at the January 2011 PyPy sprint.
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16: A Conversation at EuroPython
A discussion from the restaurant at EuroPython; pour yourself a ...
A discussion from the restaurant at EuroPython; pour yourself a glass of something before listening.
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15: Python 2.7 and 3; new conference videos; unittest2; Visual Studio support for IronPython
A 15-minute grab-bag episode: * Python 2.7 final released. * ...
A 15-minute grab-bag episode: * Python 2.7 final released. * Python 3's status. * New conference videos released (http://pyconau.blip.tv; http://kiwipycon.blip.tv; http://scipy.org). * The unittest2 module. * Visual Studio to gain IronPython support.
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14: An interview with Christian Tismer, the creator of Stackless. Discussion on topics including Stackless, psyco and PyPy.
A 16 minute interview between Michael Foord and Christian Tismer, ...
A 16 minute interview between Michael Foord and Christian Tismer, recorded at PyCon 2010. Christian Tismer is a long standing member of the Python community and, amongst other things, he is the original creator of Stackless and has worked on both psyco and PyPy. In this interview we discuss all of these projects, both their history and what the future holds for them.
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13: 2.7; PEP 3147; Summer of Code; SEC Mandating Python?; Dr Tim Couper; Funding Python; Beginners on Windows.
Several topics are covered in this 40-minute episode: * Python ...
Several topics are covered in this 40-minute episode: * Python 2.7 beta 1 released. * PEP 3147: New bytecode directory layout. * Google's Summer of Code beginning. * SEC proposes mandating Python's use in financial filings. * PyCon interview: Dr Tim Couper * How to Fund Python Development * Python for Beginners: Getting started on Windows.
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12: Global Interpreter Lock; Concurrency
We discuss the significance of the Global Interpreter Lock (or ...
We discuss the significance of the Global Interpreter Lock (or GIL) and recent work at improving it, PEP 3148 proposing futures as a new asynchronous execution method, some recent IronPython work, and a new Python podcast.
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11: Interview with Antoine Pitrou
An interview recorded at PyCon 2010, Atlanta, with Antoine Pitrou. ...
An interview recorded at PyCon 2010, Atlanta, with Antoine Pitrou. Antoine Pitrou is the core CPython developer responsible for creating the "new-GIL".
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10: Interview with Richard Jones
Richard Jones organizes the PyWeek game programming challenge (http://www.pyweek.org/). Richard ...
Richard Jones organizes the PyWeek game programming challenge (http://www.pyweek.org/). Richard and Andrew discuss how the challenge is run, what sort of games people write, and the libraries that are used.
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9: Bits of News
We discuss a variety of recent news items: some recent ...
We discuss a variety of recent news items: some recent CPython changes, the new PyPy 1.2 release, crypto support and Debian packaging for IronPython, the PyWeek game programming contest, upcoming conference plans, and upcoming podcast plans.
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8: Interview: Mark Shuttleworth
Steve Holden interviews Mark Shuttleworth, founder of the Ubuntu project ...
Steve Holden interviews Mark Shuttleworth, founder of the Ubuntu project and a keynote speaker at PyCon 2010.