The Real Python Podcast
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.
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Episodes (312)
Django Developers Survey Results & Reproducible Python Builds
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Performance Engineering: Profiling and Making Apps Fast by Default
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Exploring Complex Systems & Maintainable Data Science Pipelines
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Navigating Silent Failures in AI: Strategies for Effective Oversight
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Improving NumPy Performance on Free-Threaded Python
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Programmatically Developing LLM Prompts With DSPy
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Should You Understand Your Entire Python Codebase?
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Configuring a Versatile LLM Harness & Scraping the Web With Scrapy
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Free-Threaded Python's History & uv in Production
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Constructing and Judging Modern Agentic Workflows
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Running Python Locally in a Sandbox
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Maintaining Your Python Developer Instincts While Using LLM Tools
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EuroPython 2026: Celebrating 25 Years
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Reducing the Size of Python Docker Containers
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Improving Python Through PEPs and Protocols
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Managing Polars Schema Issues & Profiling GitHub Users
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Agentic Architecture: Why Files Aren't Always Enough
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Declarative Charts in Python & Discerning Iterators vs Iterables
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Agentic Data Science Pair Programming With marimo pair
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Becoming a Better Python Developer Through Learning Rust
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Reassessing the LLM Landscape & Summoning Ghosts
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Advice on Managing Projects & Making Python Classes Friendly
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Limitations in Human and Automated Code Review
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Automate Exploratory Data Analysis & Invent Python Comprehensions
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Crafting and Editing In-Depth Tutorials at Real Python
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Overcoming Testing Obstacles With Python's Mock Object Library
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Exploring MCP Apps & Adding Interactive UIs to Clients
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Running Local LLMs With Ollama and Connecting With Python
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Improving Your GitHub Developer Experience
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Testing Python Code for Scalability & What's New in pandas 3.0
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Continuing to Improve the Learning Experience at Real Python
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Considering Fast and Slow in Python Programming
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Coding Python With Confidence: Beginners Live Course Participants
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PyCoder's Weekly 2025 Top Articles & Hidden Gems
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Moving Towards Spec-Driven Development
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Exploring Quantum Computing & Python Frameworks
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Building a FastAPI Application & Exploring Python Concurrency
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Preparing Data Science Projects for Production
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Advice for Writing Maintainable Python Code
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Michael Kennedy: Managing Your Own Python Infrastructure
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Benchmarking Python 3.14 & Enabling Asyncio to Scale
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Evolving Teaching Python in the Classroom
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Python 3.14: Exploring the New Features
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Advice on Beginning to Learn Python
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Managing Feature Flags & Comparing Python Visualization Libraries
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Dangers of Automatically Converting a REST API to MCP
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Python App Hosting Choices & Documenting Python's History
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Large Language Models on the Edge of the Scaling Laws
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Exploring Mixin Classes in Python
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Travis Oliphant: SciPy, NumPy, and Fostering Scientific Python
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