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Python Bytes

Michael Kennedy and Brian Okken 482 episodes Latest Jun 1, 2026

Python Bytes is a weekly podcast hosted by Michael Kennedy and Brian Okken. The show is a short discussion on the headlines and noteworthy news in the Python, developer, and data science space.

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#483 Thanks Brian Jun 9, 2026 00:28:40 Topics covered in this episode: Vulnerability and malware checks in uv HTTP GET requests with the Python standard library Millions of AI agents imperiled by critical vulnerability in open source package alembic-git-revisions Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Goodbye and Thanks Brian Thanks Calvin for being part of this and future episodes! Also new time for the live show. Thanks B
#482 Mr. Beast's episode Jun 1, 2026 00:24:01 Topics covered in this episode: CVE-2026-48710: A Maintainer's Perspective daily-stars-explorer Markdown to pdf with pandoc and typst postman2pytest Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Brian #1: CVE-2026-48710: A Maintainer's Perspective Marcelo Trylesinski suggested by Lee Luocks Short version: users of Starlette: upgrade to Starlette 1.0.1 security professionals: we can’t treat
#481 Ways to die May 25, 2026 00:33:09 Topics covered in this episode: Dumb Ways for an Open Source Project to Die How to create a pylock.toml lockfile https://github.com/facebook/Lifeguard Choosing a Python Logging Library in 2026 Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course Patreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Mic
#480 Proud Parents May 18, 2026 00:33:13 Topics covered in this episode: Using Django Tasks in production Co-authored with Claude? PyPI packages are increasing rapidly httpx2 Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course Patreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org / @mkennedy.codes (bsky) Brian: @
#479 Talking About Types May 11, 2026 00:35:43 Topics covered in this episode: httpxyz one month in Learn concurrency - a deep dive into multithreading with Python pip 26.1 - lockfiles and dependency cooldowns Python 3.15 sentinal values from PEP 661 Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course Patreon Supporters Connect with the
#478 Iodine tablets and potable water May 4, 2026 00:40:13 Topics covered in this episode: profiling-explorer Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15 VSCode AI Co-author defaults to on, then off django freeze Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course Patreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org
#477 Lazy, Frozen, and 31% Lighter Apr 20, 2026 00:45:52 Topics covered in this episode: Django Modern Rest Already playing with Python 3.15 Cutting Python Web App Memory Over 31% tryke - A Rust-based Ptyhon test runner with a Jest-style API Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course Patreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkenn
#476 Common themes Apr 6, 2026 00:32:22 Topics covered in this episode: Migrating from mypy to ty: Lessons from FastAPI Oxyde ORM Typeshedded CPython docs Raw+DC Database Pattern: A Retrospective Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course Patreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org / @mken
#475 Haunted warehouses Mar 30, 2026 00:40:54 Topics covered in this episode: Lock the Ghost Fence for Sandboxing MALUS: Liberate Open Source Harden your GitHub Actions Workflows with zizmor, dependency pinning, and dependency cooldowns Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course **Patreon SupportersConnect with the hosts** Michae
#474 Astral to join OpenAI Mar 23, 2026 00:45:33 Topics covered in this episode: Starlette 1.0.0 Astral to join OpenAI uv audit Fire and forget (or never) with Python’s asyncio Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course Patreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org / @mkennedy.codes (bsky) Brian: @briano
#473 A clean room rewrite? Mar 16, 2026 00:46:10 Topics covered in this episode: chardet ,AI, and licensing refined-github pgdog: PostgreSQL connection pooler, load balancer and database sharder Agentic Engineering Patterns Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course Patreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fo
#472 Monorepos Mar 9, 2026 00:28:52 Topics covered in this episode: Setting up a Python monorepo with uv workspaces cattrs: Flexible Object Serialization and Validation Learning to program in the AI age VS Code extension for FastAPI and friends Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/472

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