#412: PEP 711 - Distributing Python Binaries

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Michael Kennedy

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🗓️ 19 April 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

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What if we distributed CPython, the runtime, in the same way we distributed Python packages - as prebuilt binary wheels that only need to be downloaded and unzipped to run? For starters, that would mean we could ship and deploy Python apps without worrying whether Python itself is available or up-to-date on the platform. Nathaniel Smith has just proposed a PEP to do just that, PEP 711. And we'll dive into that with him next.

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0:00.0	What if we distributed C Python, the runtime, in the same way we distribute Python packages,
0:05.8	as pre-built binary wheels that only need to be downloaded and unzipped to run?
0:10.5	For starters, that would mean we could ship and deploy Python apps without worrying
0:14.8	whether Python itself is available or up-to-date on the platform.
0:18.8	Nathaniel Smith has just proposed a PEP to do just that, PEP 711,
0:24.1	and we'll dive into it with him next.
0:26.3	This is Talk Python, Me.
0:27.6	Episode 412, recorded April 18th, 2020.
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1:29.0	Nathaniel, welcome back to Talk Python to me. How's it going? It's going real well. It's going real well. We're on the eve
1:34.7	of the eve of Pycon. How about that? Eve square, okay, yeah. I don't know how many,
1:40.7	maybe it's the third, the eve to the third, but we're very near PyCon. I'm pretty excited.
1:45.7	Yeah, anti-penultipi-ev.
1:48.4	I don't know.
1:48.8	The penultimate Eve, perhaps?
1:50.1	Yeah, exactly.
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