The Python Show

Doug Farrell is the author of “The Well-Grounded Python Developer” for Manning Publishing and a contributor/writer for Real Python.In this episode, we talk about* How programming has changed over the past few decades* What a well-grounded Python developer is* The process of authoring a book* and more!You can catch up with Doug at any of the following sites:* Twitter* GitHub* Personal Website Get full access to The Python Show at www.pythonshow.com/subscribe

Tarek Ziadé is the original creator of Flake8, a super popular linter that combines pep8 and PyFlakes.Tarek has also recently created the perf8, a tool for measuring your Python code performance. You can read more about the project in the article: Perf8: Performance metrics for Python.If you’d like to see what else Tarek is up to, you can find him on Mastodon. Get full access to The Python Show at www.pythonshow.com/subscribe

Today’s special guest is Stephen Gruppetta (@s_gruppetta_ct), author of The Python Coding Book. In this podcast, we discuss Stephen’s coding journey, teaching, books, and course ideas.Check out Stephen’s newsletter: The Python Coding Stack!You can also check out Stephen’s home page for more on what he’s up to. Get full access to The Python Show at www.pythonshow.com/subscribe

In today’s episode, I talk about many of the amazing Python graphical user interface (GUI) frameworks that you have available. I focus primarily on desktop GUI frameworks.Here is a list of links to the ones mentioned in this episode:* Tkinter* wxPython* PyQt* Qt for Python (AKA PySide)* PyGTK (Note: no longer actively developed)* DearPyGUISimpler GUIs* CustomTkinter* PySimpleGUI* EasyGUIMobile GUI frameworks* Kivy* Toga* PyQtHTML-Based Desktop GUIs* NiceGUI* FlexxText-Base GUIs* Textual Get full access to The Python Show at www.pythonshow.com/subscribe

Today’s episode is about data science and Python with my guest, Akshay Pachaar!You can follow Akshay on Twitter or befriend him on LinkedIn.Topics covered include:* How Akshay got into tech, data science, and Python* Using Python in data science* Python and maps / GIS* Machine learning* LLMs* Content creation + audience growth tips Get full access to The Python Show at www.pythonshow.com/subscribe

I’m always being asked how I got into the Python programming language, so I think the inaugural episode should be about that topic.Things I mention in this episode include:* The Mouse vs Python blog* Planet Python* The wxPython GUI toolkit* The Tkinter GUI toolkit* The PyQt GUI toolkit Get full access to The Python Show at www.pythonshow.com/subscribe