…

The Real Python Podcast

…

Real Python

A weekly Python podcast hosted by Christopher Bailey with interviews, coding tips, and conversation with guests from the Python community. The show covers a wide range of topics including Python programming best practices, career tips, and related software development topics. Join us every Friday morning to hear what's new in the world of Python programming and become a more effective Pythonista.

#277

Exploring Quantum Computing & Python Frameworks

What are the recent advances in the field of quantum computing and high-performance comput... more

05 Dec 2025

50 MINS

50:24

05 Dec 2025

#276

Building a FastAPI Application & Exploring Python Concurrency

What are the steps to get started building a FastAPI application? What are the different t... more

21 Nov 2025

35 MINS

35:07

21 Nov 2025

#275

Preparing Data Science Projects for Production

How do you prepare your Python data science projects for production? What are the essentia... more

14 Nov 2025

59 MINS

59:12

14 Nov 2025

#274

Advice for Writing Maintainable Python Code

What are techniques for writing maintainable Python code? How do you make your Python more... more

07 Nov 2025

54 MINS

54:53

07 Nov 2025

#273

Michael Kennedy: Managing Your Own Python Infrastructure

How do you deploy your Python application without getting locked into an expensive cloud-b... more

31 Oct 2025

1 HR 20 MINS

1:20:25

31 Oct 2025

#272

Benchmarking Python 3.14 & Enabling Asyncio to Scale

How does Python 3.14 perform under a few hand-crafted benchmarks? Does the performance of ... more

24 Oct 2025

47 MINS

47:24

24 Oct 2025

#271

Evolving Teaching Python in the Classroom

How is teaching young students Python changing with the advent of LLMs? This week on the s... more

17 Oct 2025

1 HR 04 MINS

1:04:59

17 Oct 2025

#270

Python 3.14: Exploring the New Features

Python 3.14 is here! Christopher Trudeau returns to discuss the new version with Real Pyth... more

10 Oct 2025

56 MINS

56:13

10 Oct 2025

#269

Advice on Beginning to Learn Python

What’s changed about learning Python over the last few years? What new techniques an... more

03 Oct 2025

52 MINS

52:11

03 Oct 2025

#268

Managing Feature Flags & Comparing Python Visualization Libraries

What’s a good way to enable or disable code paths without redeploying the software? ... more

26 Sep 2025

42 MINS

42:17

26 Sep 2025

#267

Dangers of Automatically Converting a REST API to MCP

When converting an existing REST API to the Model Context Protocol, what should you consid... more

19 Sep 2025

1 HR 24 MINS

1:24:25

19 Sep 2025

#266

Python App Hosting Choices & Documenting Python's History

What are your options for hosting your Python application or scripts? What are the advanta... more

12 Sep 2025

43 MINS

43:50

12 Sep 2025

#265

Large Language Models on the Edge of the Scaling Laws

What’s happening with the latest releases of large language models? Is the industry ... more

05 Sep 2025

1 HR 28 MINS

1:28:34

05 Sep 2025

#264

Exploring Mixin Classes in Python

What is a good way to add isolated, reusable functionality to Python classes? Christopher ... more

29 Aug 2025

50 MINS

50:15

29 Aug 2025

#263

Travis Oliphant: SciPy, NumPy, and Fostering Scientific Python

What went into developing the open-source Python tools data scientists use every day? This... more

22 Aug 2025

1 HR 11 MINS

1:11:20

22 Aug 2025

#262

Selecting Inheritance or Composition in Python

When considering an object-oriented programming problem, should you prefer inheritance or ... more

15 Aug 2025

46 MINS

46:02

15 Aug 2025

#261

Harnessing the Power of Python Polars

What are the advantages of using Polars for your Python data projects? When should you use... more

08 Aug 2025

1 HR 14 MINS

1:14:59