Python is growing incredibly fast, and it's found its place in many facets of the developer

and computational space. One area that is still shaky and uncertain is packaging and shipping

software to users. I'm not talking about building reusable libraries and hosting them on PiPi.

I'm talking about shipping executable software to non-developers. Take a moment and stop and think

about the ways you would send an in-user, a program built

with Python, that they can simply run.

It's a bit of a mixed bag, isn't it?

On this episode, we welcome back Christian Medina to run through the state of Python packaging.

This is Talk Python to Me, episode 245 recorded November 21st, 2019.

Welcome to Talk Python to Me, a weekly podcast on Python, the language, the libraries, the ecosystem, and the personalities.

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offering during their segments. It really helps support the show. Chris, welcome back to Talk Python.

Hey, thanks. How's it going? It's been a while. It has been a while. It has been since the summer of

2018, so not quite two years, but it's definitely been a while since you were on. Previously, you were on to talk about continuous integration, continuous delivery with Python.

And you know, that was a really popular episode, actually.

I thought the topic would be popular.

But you came across with all these little tools and techniques that people just loved.

And so, yeah, it was really great. And we'll probably learn some more about cool tools and techniques that people just loved. And so, yeah, it was really great.

And we'll probably learn some more about cool tools and techniques this time around, too.

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