#240: A guided tour of the CPython source code

Talk Python To Me

Michael Kennedy

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4.8 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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You might use Python every day. But how much do you know about what happens under the covers, down at the C level? When you type something like variable = [], what are the byte-codes that accomplish this? How about the class backing the list itself?

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0:00.0	You might use Python every day, but how much do you know about what happens under the covers
0:05.0	down at the C level?
0:06.9	When you type something like variable equals open bracket square bracket to create an empty list,
0:12.1	what are the mic codes that accomplish this?
0:14.6	How about the class backing the list itself?
0:18.1	All of these details live at the C layer of C Python. On this episode, you'll meet Anthony Shaw.
0:23.3	He and I take a guided tour of the C Python source code. After listening to this episode,
0:28.2	you won't have to guess what's happening. You can get cloned the C Python source code and see for
0:33.2	yourself. This is Talk Python to Me. Episode 240, recorded Wednesday, October 30th, 2019.
0:52.9	Welcome to Talk Python to Me, a weekly podcast on Python, the language, the libraries, the ecosystem, and the personalities.
0:59.8	This is your host, Michael Kennedy. Follow me on Twitter where I'm at M. Kennedy.
1:03.8	Keep up with a show and listen to past episodes at TalkPython.fm. And follow the show on Twitter via At TalkPython.
1:10.0	This episode is sponsored by Linode and the University of San Francisco.
1:14.4	Please check out what they're offering during their segments.
1:16.6	It really helps support the show.
1:18.9	Anthony, welcome back to Talk Python and me.
1:20.6	Hey, my course.
1:21.3	Great to be back.
1:21.9	Yeah, it's great to have you back.
1:23.3	To say you've been on the show before is a bit of an understatement. You were on episode 131, contributed to open source, 155, practical steps from moving to Python 3,
1:32.6	168, 10 Python security holes in how to plug them, 180, what's new Python 3, 7, and then 214,
1:39.4	diving into 3, 8.
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