Episode 11: Live from PyCon 2024
Who says we can't do short episodes? Well, it was a challenge! But with the help of some gentle conference schedule pressure, here's our first sub-hour episode. We're discussing the language summit, answering audience questions, and behaving like serious professionals, as usual. ## Outline (00:00:00) INTRO (00:02:01) PEP 602 tweaks: 2 years of bug fix releases (00:02:45) CalVer for Python versions? (00:04:51) In Python there's this thing called the C API (00:08:51) More about PyREPL (00:12:17) Evolving pdb (00:14:49) Memhive (00:16:18) The boring 3.13 (00:18:16) Q&A (00:18:43) Fashion + favorite bug (00:22:12) What happens in 2100 with CalVer? (00:23:02) Subinterpreters or free-threading? (00:23:41) Where else to find information on current development? (00:25:40) Will distros provide free-threading builds? (00:26:23) Will the podcast run out of content? (00:28:37) OUTRO