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Topics covered in this episode:

• Django Modern Rest
• Already playing with Python 3.15
• Cutting Python Web App Memory Over 31%
• tryke - A Rust-based Ptyhon test runner with a Jest-style API
• Extras
• Joke

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Michael #1: Django Modern Rest

• Modern REST framework for Django with types and async support
• Supports Pydantic, Attrs, and msgspec
• Has ai coding support with llms.txt
• See an example at the “showcase” section

Brian #2: Already playing with Python 3.15

• 3.15.0a8, 2.14.4 and 3.13.13 are out
  • Hugo von Kemenade
• beta comes in May, CRs in Sept, and Final planned for October
• But still, there’s awesome stuff here already, here’s what I’m looking forward to:
  • PEP 810: Explicit lazy imports
  • PEP 814: frozendict built-in type
  • PEP 798: Unpacking in comprehensions with * and **
  • PEP 686: Python now uses UTF-8 as the default encoding

Michael #3: Cutting Python Web App Memory Over 31%

• I cut 3.2 GB of memory usage from our Python web apps using five techniques:
  • async workers
  • import isolation
  • the Raw+DC database pattern
  • local imports for heavy libraries
  • disk-based caching
• See the full article for details.

Brian #4: tryke - A Rust-based Ptyhon test runner with a Jest-style API

• Justin Chapman
• Watch mode, Native async support, Fast test discovery, In-source testing, Support for doctests, Client/server mode for fast editor integrations, Pretty, per-assertion diagnostics, Filtering and marks, Changed mode (like pytest-picked), Concurrent tests, Soft assertions,
• JSON, JUnit, Dot, and LLM reporters
• Honestly haven’t tried it yet, but you know, I’m kinda a fan of thinking outside the box with testing strategies so I welcome new ideas.

Extras

Brian:

• Why are’t we uv yet?
  • Interesting take on the “agents prefer pip”
  • Problem with analysis.
    • Many projects are libraries and don’t publish uv.lock file
    • Even with uv, it still often seen as a developer preference for non-libarries. You can sitll use uv with requirements.txt
• PyCon US 2026 talks schedule is up
  • Interesting that there’s an AI track now. I won’t be attending, but I might have a bot watch the videos and summarize for me. :)
• What has technology done to us?
  • Justin Jackson
• Lean TDD new cover
  • Also, 0.6.1 is so ready for me to start f-ing reading the audio book and get on with this shipping the actual f-ing book and yes I realize I seem like I’m old because I use “f-ing” while typing.
    Michael:
• Python 3.14.4 is out
• Beanie 2.1 release

Joke: HumanDB - Blazingly slow. Emotionally consistent.