Must-watch videos about Python

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2009

• David Beazley: Inside the Python GIL
  • Video: youtube
  • Misc resources

2010

• Brandon Rhodes: The Mighty Dictionary (PyCon Atlanta)
  • Video: youtube/pyvideo
  • Slides
• David Beazley: Understanding the Python GIL (PyCon US)
  • Video: youtube/pyvideo
  • Misc resources

2011

• Raymond Hettinger: API Design: Lessons Learned (PyCon US)
  • PyCon presentation
  • Video: youtube/pyvideo

2012

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

2013

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

2014

• Alex Gaynor: Fast Python, Slow Python (PyCon US)
  • PyCon presentation
  • Video: youtube/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/pyvideo
  • Slides
• Benjamin Peterson: Garbage Collection in Python (PyCon US)
  • PyCon presentation
  • Video: youtube/pyvideo
  • Slides
• Brandon Rhodes: All Your Ducks In A Row: Data Structures in the Standard Library and Beyond (PyCon US)
  • PyCon presentation
  • Video: youtube/pyvideo
  • Slides
• Brandon Rhodes: The Clean Architecture (PyOhio)
  • Video: youtube/pyvideo
  • Slides
• Christine Spang: Subprocess to FFI: Memory, Performance, and Why You Shouldn't Shell (PyCon US)
  • PyCon presentation
  • Video: youtube/pyvideo
  • Slides
• David Beazley: Generators: The Final Frontier (PyCon US)
  • PyCon presentation
  • Video: youtube/pyvideo
  • Slides
• Erik Rose: Designing Poetic APIs (PyCon US)
  • PyCon presentation
  • Video: youtube/pyvideo/vod
  • Slides
• Guido van Rossum: Tulip: Async I/O for Python 3 (PyCon US)
  • PyCon presentation
  • Video: youtube
• Mike Müller: Faster Python Programs through Optimization (PyCon US)
  • PyCon presentation
  • Video: youtube/pyvideo
  • Slides
• Ned Batchelder: Getting Started Testing (PyCon US)
  • PyCon presentation
  • Video: youtube/pyvideo
  • Slides
• S Anand: Faster data processing in Python (PyCon IN)
  • PyCon presentation
  • Video: youtube
  • iPython Notebook

2015

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

  • Video: youtube

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

  • Video: youtube