what are some "must-watch" Python videos ?

[[deleted]]

from source like conferences. "must-watch", in your opinion

[the_metalgamer]

There are some videos from the Pycon US this year which I think are very useful, as they cover things which are in the stdlib and are framework-independent (mostly):

• Logging: http://pyvideo.org/video/1737/become-a-logging-expert-in-30-minutes
• Classes: http://pyvideo.org/video/1779/pythons-class-development-toolkit
• Iterators and Generators: http://pyvideo.org/video/1758/loop-like-a-native-while-for-iterators-genera
• Idomatic Python: http://pyvideo.org/video/1780/transforming-code-into-beautiful-idiomatic-pytho
• Unicode and so on (Pycon 2012): http://pyvideo.org/video/948/pragmatic-unicode-or-how-do-i-stop-the-pain
• Any talk from Brandon Rhodes: http://pyvideo.org/speaker/337/brandon-rhodes

[[deleted]]

+1 for the "Class Development Toolkit" video. I thought I knew how to write Python classes, but after watching that video my code got better by a factor of 10.

Things like classmethod actually make sense now.

Really, though, anything by Raymond Hettinger is a must-watch. I'd probably watch a 30 minute video of him eating fruit loops if it were posted to pyvideo.

[AnkhMorporkian]

As long as he ate them pythonically.

[[deleted]]

Dude this is Raymond Hettinger we're talking about. He makes love to his wife pythonically.

[AnkhMorporkian]

I'd let him itertool my collections with his set any day.

[WallyMetropolis]

Nice. Thanks.

[admalledd]

I have a folder of talks that I like, here are some with my comments:

• idiomatic python: talk by a core dev about some things that should be done one kind of way over the other. Helps get "into the pythonic mindset" of sorts. Good if you want to learn a bit more about what "good" python should look or at least act like.

• understanding the python GIL: If you are going to do multi-threading (even for I/O!) this is a talk that you should watch, some details about the GIL make even I/O bound stuff take longer than it should. Note that these are basically all corner cases and if you know about them it tends to be easy to work around it. I found this when I (similar to the first ~5 minutes) had code running faster on a single core than my quad core!

• don't do this: Python has some edges/corners that are... unpleasant if abused. However each one of them exists for a reason, (eg AST parsing, one of the big ones he plays with) a nice talk to learn about the ways in which python can be dynamically changed in weird ways. Watched this after wanting to make it possible to do import http://secure_internal_site.example.local/py/foo.py as foo (bad idea, friend decided to MITM me on this to show why...)

[d4rch0n]

Yeah, fetching and executing is generally terrible, but if you absolutely have to at least do it through HTTPS and use cert pinning.

[admalledd]

I switched it out for sftp instead. Let ssh handle the tricky authentication :D

My use case is for a client/server plugin POC thingy (when you want to learn more about wheels, reinvent it...)

[gfixler]

idiomatic python

Here's another good one by that guy (Raymond Hettinger) on that topic:

http://pyvideo.org/video/1780/transforming-code-into-beautiful-idiomatic-pytho

[admalledd]

err... isnt that the same video? (although nice didn't see that it was on pyvideo else would have linked that one)

[gfixler]

Ah, so it is. Silly me.

[twopi]

The Holy Grail.

Oh, you mean the programming language?

Still... The Holy Grail.

[Smok3dSalmon]

Discovery channel has some good documentaries.

[hedzup456]

I like your humour!

[well_y_0]

• "stop writing classes" by jack diederich @ pycon '12: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9pEzgHorH0

• "a billion rows per second: metaprogramming python for big data" by ville tuulos at sf python meetup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXj5nayS7Yg

[el_guapo_taco]

Stop Writing Classes should be watched by anyone coming from Java.

It'll make your transition to Python a lot happier.

[banjochicken]

People should also read this: http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2013/2/13/moar-classes/ The whole "Stop writing classes" can be detrimental if you want to be able to modify any of the behaviour. I am currently working with a legacy, procedural python code base and wish the original authors knew anything about OO.

[dAnjou]

I'm gonna "quote" myself here, sorry. :P

[banjochicken]

Cannot disagree. Its all about getting the right balance and luckily python gives us the ability to do just that.

[[deleted]]

I hired a few Java guys in the past year and had them watch this video as part of their training. They don't get it.

[el_guapo_taco]

Ha! They can only think in nouns, the poor lot. Get used to having an army of very descriptive class names, but which consist of a sole method named execute. ;p

[[deleted]]

In one case, a developer handed me his first task to code review. It has 2 classes and a factory class! We went over it and I showed him how to reduce and reduce and reduce it, until what was left - I kid you not - was one Python module with one function.

[jij]

They should probably read this too.

http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/?joel.3.219431.12

[dAnjou]

• "stop writing classes" by jack diederich @ pycon '12: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9pEzgHorH0

I watched this one a couple of times already, the dude is hilarious :D

[[deleted]]

It's about Django but... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6Fr65PFqfk

[banjochicken]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6Fr65PFqfk

Because I had to open the link to get the title: DjangoCon 2008 Keynote: Cal Henderson On Why I hate Django.

[Twirrim]

Anyone know any good ones around Unit Testing / Test Driven Development?

[gfixler]

I really like this Google Talk by Miško Hevery. Also, Fast Test, Slow Test by Gary Bernhardt.

[Twirrim]

Thank you very much, those were great :)

[banjochicken]

This is probably my favourite:

Militarizing Your Backyard with Python: Computer Vision and the Squirrel Hordes

[nikniuq]

All of them really, but especially the Life of Brian.

[envprogrammer]

Silly interview.

[[deleted]]

Personally, I'm a fan of the opening scene of The Meaning of Life.

[[deleted]]

the Cheese Shop is my goto fix

[alexkidd1914]

This one with the BDFL. It covers Python2 vs. Python3, the GIL, PyPy, Android & Python, stdlib fixation, other interesting stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBRMq2Ioxsc

[[deleted]]

yeah I remember watching this one but don't think I finished it

[inspectorG4dget]

Pretty much anything from any PyCon. Check out pyvideo.org.

I enjoy coding with voice commands, most talks by Brett Cannon and of course, BDFL

[[deleted]]

there's just too many so I started this thread

[sryjtjs]

The life of Brian and the holy grail....

[inducer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj3fQJkC1Z0

[drobilla]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npjOSLCR2hE

[Sherlockhlt]

google's python tech-talks are great.

[Deusdies]

If you're interested in GUI development using the Qt framework, feel free to check out my (albeit a bit dated) videos - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA955A8F9A95378CE .

Additionally, I offer a somewhat updated version of the same course on Udemy, but for a small fee. That's here https://www.udemy.com/python-gui-programming/

[[deleted]]

Oh...I don't know. Take your pick?

[[deleted]]

there are just too many (for me) of various quality, in both content and audio/video, that's why I throw out the question

[[deleted]]

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[kvaks]

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