EuroPython Conference Courses

Python Performance - Past, Present and Future

Explore Python's performance evolution, optimization projects, and future prospects with insights on specialized lists, reference counting, and multiple interpreters.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Tools of the Trade - The Making of a Code Editor

Explore the journey of creating Mu, a Python-based code editor, addressing challenges in cross-platform development, accessibility, and building an inclusive community for beginners and educators.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

The Agile Comedy - From Hell to Paradise

Explore Agile implementation challenges and successes through a Dante-inspired journey, offering insights on building happy, productive teams and delivering great products.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Look Ma, No HTTP!

Explore building dynamic, event-driven web applications using WebSocket and Socket.IO, eliminating HTTP for real-time, bidirectional communication between client and server.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Software Patterns for Productive Teams

Strategies for enhancing team productivity in software development, addressing common challenges like merge conflicts, feature deadlocks, and communication issues in large Python/Django projects.

• YouTube
• 44 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Evolving a Helper Script into a 180,000-Lines-of-Python-Code Project

Explore the evolution of a Python project from a simple script to a complex incident response framework, covering design decisions, challenges, and best practices in software development.

• YouTube
• 44 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Running a Synchrotron on Open Source Python

Explore how open-source Python powers a synchrotron's complex software infrastructure, and discover potential applications for this advanced research facility in various scientific fields.

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Status Quo of Virtual Environments

Explore the inner workings of Python virtual environments, their importance in dependency management, and how they function across different Python interpreters.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Configuring uWSGI for Production - The Defaults Are All Wrong

Optimizing uWSGI configuration for production: Learn best practices, avoid common pitfalls, and leverage powerful features to improve reliability and performance in distributed systems.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Code Quality in Python

Explore Python code quality tools, formatters, and best practices for cleaner, more efficient programming. Learn to balance zealous approaches with practical, reasonable solutions.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Delta Chat, CFFI, pytest and All the Rust

Explore Delta Chat's decentralized messaging, Python testing with pytest, CFFI integration, and creating chat bots. Learn about interfacing Rust with Python and building powerful, versatile bots using IMAP/SMTP.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Advanced asyncio - Solving Real-world Production Problems

Explore advanced asyncio techniques for real-world production problems, covering graceful shutdowns, exception handling, testing, debugging, and profiling in Python's asynchronous programming.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

The Story of Features Coming in Python 3.8 and Beyond

Explore upcoming Python 3.8 features and beyond, including new syntax, types, and optimization approaches. Gain insights into the development process and future directions of the language.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

GraphQL in Python

Explore GraphQL's rise, advantages over REST, and Python implementation. Learn about Strawberry, a new library simplifying GraphQL API creation using dataclasses.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Pointers? In My Python? It's More Likely Than You Think

Explore CPython's memory management, object lifetimes, and pointer behavior. Gain insights into 'is' vs '==', deepcopy, and garbage collection for better Python programming and debugging skills.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk