What if you could bottle up all the wisdom and hard-fought experience of many expert

Python developers and power up your skills?

That's what Brett Slacken did, and he put it in his new book, Effective Python.

This is episode number 25 of Talk Python to Me, recorded Wednesday, August 12, 2015.

I'm a developer, developers, developers, developers.

I'm a developer in many senses of the word, because I make these applications, but I also use these verbs to make this music.

I constructed line by line, just like when I'm coding another software design.

In both cases, it's about design patterns.

Anyone can get the job done.

It's the execution that matters. I have many interests. Sometimes it can flects. Welcome to Talk Python to me, a weekly podcast on, the

personalities. This is your host, Michael Kennedy. Follow me on Twitter where I'm at

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Code Ship. It's another week with a book giveaway.

And just like last week's, this one is a really excellent one.

Make sure you're a friend of the show and you'll be in the running to win the free ebook version of Effective Python.

Just visit TalkPython.fm, click on Friends of the Show and boom, winning happens.

Well, sometimes, if you're lucky.

Now let me introduce Brett so we can get right to the show. Brett Slacken is the author of Effective Python. He's the

engineering lead and co-founder of Google Consumer Surveys. He formerly worked on Google App Engine,

the PubSub Hubbub Protocol, and managing Google's fleet of servers.

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