People often ask me how they can find a Python community to be part of,

maybe a discussion forum or a Slack channel.

This week we look at one of the most active communities, Python Discord.

It's Python on a Discord server, but much more than that too.

You'll meet Leon Sandoy, who along with the team of folks, runs Python Discord.

Join us on this episode of Talk Python to Me, number 305, recorded February 17th,

2021. Welcome to Talk Python, Demit, a weekly. Welcome to Talk Python, Me, a weekly podcast on Python, the language, the libraries, the ecosystem, and the personalities.

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Leon, welcome to Talk Python to me.

Thank you.

Thanks for having me on.

Yeah, it's great to have you on.

You're doing such interesting work in the community.

And I'm excited to just give you a chance to share

what you're doing with the world. It's cool what's going on over at Python Discord. And it's a lot

bigger than I think people realize. Yeah. It's really take, especially the last year, it's

completely taken off. It's quadrupled in size over the last year. Wow. And that's, we have 150,000 users now, 100 members of staff,

and we're involved in all sorts of conferences and helping out in the ecosystem overall. I think

it's starting to become a big deal. I'm really excited to be part of it. Yeah, I would say that's

fantastic. Now, before we get into the main topic, let's hear a little bit about you, your background. How do you get into programming in Python? It's an interesting story. When I was

six, my grandpa bought me my first computer, and he was like an autodidact. He was an engineer

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