Jan 26, 2024 47m
How does a debugger work? What can you learn about Python by building one from scratch? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder’s Weekly articles and projects.
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Christopher shares a two-part tutorial on building a debugger in Python? Creating a simple one requires less code than you might think.
We also talk about an article from Itamar Turner-Trauring about how to prepare for the upcoming changes to NumPy. The new version is not backward compatible and will require some inspection of your project dependencies. Itamar includes advice, techniques, and tools for updating your code.
We also share several other articles and projects from the Python community, including a couple of news items, a discussion about managing advice as a new developer, moving to Python as a former R developer, building a Markov chain to generate readable nonsense, optimizing fonts to individual glyphs on your website, and a project for working with units of measurement in Python.
This week’s episode is brought to you by Posit Connect.
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Topics:
- 00:00:00 – Introduction
- 00:02:18 – DjangoCon Europe 2024 CFP Now Open
- 00:02:38 – Python Insider: Python 3.13.0 alpha 3 is now available
- 00:03:04 – NumPy 2 Is Coming: Preventing Breakage, Updating Your Code
- 00:07:37 – Using a Markov Chain to Generate Readable Nonsense
- 00:12:53 – Sponsor: Posit Connect
- 00:13:43 – Python Rgonomics
- 00:20:10 – Let’s Create a Python Debugger Together
- 00:23:49 – Video Course Spotlight
- 00:25:08 – Advice for New Devs Who’ve Read Other Advice Essays
- 00:42:44 – Fontimize: Optimize Fonts to the Glyphs on Your Site
- 00:44:57 – Pint: Units for Python
- 00:46:55 – Thanks and Goodbye
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