S1 Episode 10 - Erik De Bonte

Sad Python Girls Club

This is the 10th episode of the Sad Python Girls Club Podcast, and we're excited to have Erik De Bonte as our special guest! Erik is a Principal Software Engineer working on Pylance, the default language server for Python in Visual Studio Code 🐍. In this episode, he shares his learnings and work on typed Python and a bit about what it was like ramping up on Pylance while also writing a PEP for the first time 🤯

To celebrate the release of our 10th episode, we also made a bingo card that you can use to cross-off things that may happen in each of our episodes 😝. Check it out!

As usual, here are a few of the resources and references we mentioned throughout the episode:

• Erik De Bonte @ GitHub
• Pylance extension for VS Code
• Real Python (& their podcast!)
• Fluent Python by Luciano Ramalho
• Advanced Visual Studio Code for Python Developers by Anthony Shaw
• Pyright, the type checker that powers up the Pylance experience in VS Code
• Pyre
• PyType
• Typing sig mailing list
• Python Data Classes
• PEP 557 - Data Classes
• PEP 681 - Data Class Transforms
• The dataclass_transform decorator
• Python 3.11 (which is out now!)
• Descriptors in Python
• Is This Band Emo? website: isthisbandemo.com
• Nobody's Hero by Rush

Intro Song: Pastel
Producer: Blue.P
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