Welcome to another episode of the Sad Python Girls Club Podcast! This time our special guest is Graham Wheeler, the Principal Group Software Engineering Manager for the Python runtime team at Microsoft 🏃
In this episode we talk about how Graham first got started with Python, how Pylance originated, and even how Microsoft ended up with an entire team working on making CPython faster ⚡🐍
One small correction from our conversation: the Python performance improvements mentioned around the 19-minute mark is/will be available on Python 3.11 and Python 3.12.
This episode was recorded on September 9th, 2022.
A few links and resources:
Graham Wheeler @ GitHub)
Player pianos)
Transcribing player piano rolls with Python)
Pylance for VS Code)
Pyright)
Typing in Python))
Python type checking @ Real Python)
Type checking mode and other settings with Pylance)
Typeshed))
Microsoft's Python Type Stubs))
Pandas stubs)
Try Python inlay hints in VS Code)
Jay Miller's video on Python inlay hints)
Python Community News) (now with 15+ episodes already!)
More about the CPython performance team work))
Python in Minecraft)
Python @ the Windows store)
Kissing by Bliss)
Intro Song: Pastel
Producer: Blue.P
Music provided by LogSquare
