s16h / py-must-watch

Must-watch videos about Python

Must-watch videos about Python

Inspired by js-must-watch. Create pull requests to add more awesome links :-)

2007

• Alex Martelli: Python Design Patterns (Google Developers Day US)

  • Video: youtube [00:44:02]
  • Slides

• Thomas Wouters: Advanced Python (or understanding Python) (Google)

  • Video: youtube [01:15:43]

2009

• David Beazley: Inside the Python GIL
  • Video: youtube [01:01:03]
  • Misc resources

2010

• Brandon Rhodes: The Mighty Dictionary (PyCon Atlanta)
  • Video: youtube [00:30:50]/pyvideo
  • Slides
• David Beazley: Understanding the Python GIL (PyCon US)
  • Video: youtube [00:46:10]/pyvideo
  • Misc resources

2011

• Raymond Hettinger: API Design: Lessons Learned (PyCon US)
  • PyCon presentation
  • Video: youtube [01:17:34]/pyvideo

2012

• Brandon Rhodes: Python Design Patterns 1 (PyCon US)
  • Video: youtube [01:07:50]/pyvideo
  • Slides
• Erik Rose: Parsing Horrible Things with Python (PyCon US)
  • PyCon presentation
  • Video: youtube [00:30:31]/pyvideo
• Jack Diederich: Stop Writing Classes (PyCon US)
  • PyCon presentation
  • Video: youtube [00:27:30]/pyvideo
• Ned Batchelder: Pragmatic Unicode, or, How do I stop the pain? (PyCon US)
  • PyCon presentation
  • Video: youtube [00:36:21]/pyvideo
  • Slides with text/Just the slides
• Peter Inglesby: Discovering Descriptors (EuroPython)
  • EuroPython presentation
  • Video: youtube [00:37:51]
  • Code
• Raymond Hettinger: The Art of Subclassing (PyCon US)
  • PyCon presentation
  • Video: youtube [00:39:48]/pyvideo
• David Schachter: How to Speed up a Python Program 114,000 times (SF Python Usergroup)
  • Presentation
  • Slides
  • Video: youtube [00:59:11]

2013

• David Beazley: Python 3 Metaprogramming (PyCon US)
  • PyCon presentation
  • Video: youtube [03:24:00]/pyvideo
  • Misc resources
• Jessica McKellar: The Future of Python - A Choose Your Own Adventure
  • Video youtube [00:35:33]/pyvideo
  • Slides
• Kenneth Reitz: Python for Humans (PyCon US)
  • Video: youtube [00:31:43]/pyvideo
  • Slides
• Ned Batchelder: Loop like a native: while, for, iterators, generators (PyCon US)
  • PyCon presentation
  • Video: youtube [00:29:15]/pyvideo
  • Slides with text/Just the slides
• Raymond Hettinger: Python's Class Development Toolkit (PyCon US)
  • PyCon presentation
  • Video: youtube [00:45:56]/pyvideo
  • Slides
• Raymond Hettinger: Transforming Code into Beautiful, Idiomatic Python (PyCon US)
  • PyCon presentation
  • Video: youtube [00:48:51]/pyvideo
  • Slides

2014

• Alex Gaynor: Fast Python, Slow Python (PyCon US)
  • PyCon presentation
  • Video: youtube [00:36:11]/pyvideo
  • Slides
• A. Jesse Jiryu Davis: What Is Async, How Does It Work, And When Should I Use It? (PyCon US)
  • PyCon presentation
  • Video: youtube [00:46:50]/pyvideo
  • Slides
• Benjamin Peterson: Garbage Collection in Python (PyCon US)
  • PyCon presentation
  • Video: youtube [00:26:57]/pyvideo
  • Slides
• Brandon Rhodes: All Your Ducks In A Row: Data Structures in the Standard Library and Beyond (PyCon US)
  • PyCon presentation
  • Video: youtube [00:37:41]/pyvideo
  • Slides
• Brandon Rhodes: The Clean Architecture (PyOhio)
  • Video: youtube [00:49:54]/pyvideo
  • Slides
• Christine Spang: Subprocess to FFI: Memory, Performance, and Why You Shouldn't Shell (PyCon US)
  • This talk might be obsolete as of Python 3.8
  • PyCon presentation
  • Video: youtube [00:35:13]/pyvideo
  • Slides
• David Beazley: Generators: The Final Frontier (PyCon US)
  • PyCon presentation
  • Video: youtube [02:55:36]/pyvideo
  • Slides
• Erik Rose: Designing Poetic APIs (PyCon US)
  • PyCon presentation
  • Video: youtube [00:48:08]/pyvideo/vod
  • Slides
• Guido van Rossum: Tulip: Async I/O for Python 3 (PyCon US)
  • PyCon presentation
  • Video: youtube [01:10:38]
• Mike Müller: Faster Python Programs through Optimization (PyCon US)
  • PyCon presentation
  • Video: youtube [02:59:54]/pyvideo
  • Slides
• Ned Batchelder: Getting Started Testing (PyCon US)
  • PyCon presentation
  • Video: youtube [00:42:44]/pyvideo
  • Slides
• S Anand: Faster data processing in Python (PyCon IN)
  • PyCon presentation
  • Video: youtube [00:55:08]
  • iPython Notebook

2015

• Raymond Hettinger: Beyond PEP 8 -- Best practices for beautiful intelligible code (PyCon US)

  • PyCon presentation
  • Video: youtube [00:52:05]

• David Beazley: Python Concurrency From the Ground Up: LIVE! (PyCon US)

  • Video: youtube [00:46:50]

• David Beazley: Modules and Packages: Live and Let Die! (PyCon US)

  • Video: youtube [03:02:33]

• Raymond Hettinger: Super considered super! (PyCon US)

  • Video: youtube [00:46:52]

• Ned Batchelder: Facts and Myths about Python names and values (PyCon US)

  • PyCon presentation
  • Video: youtube [00:25:20]/pyvideo
  • Slides and new article/Original article

2017

• Raymond Hettinger: Modern Python Dictionaries A confluence of a dozen great ideas (PyCon US)
  • PyCon presentation
  • Video: youtube [00:37:37]