#524: 38 things Python developers should learn in 2025
Talk Python To Me
Michael Kennedy
4.8 • 642 Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Python in 2025 is different. |
| 0:02.4 | Threads are really about to run in parallel. |
| 0:05.1 | Installs finish before your coffee cools and containers are the default. |
| 0:10.0 | In this episode, we count down 38 things to learn this year. |
| 0:14.6 | Free threaded C Python, UV for packaging, Docker and Compose, Kubernetes with Tilt, |
| 0:20.8 | DuckDB, and Arrow, PieScript at the Edge, |
| 0:23.1 | plus MCP for sane AI workflows. Expect practical wins and migration pass. No buzzword bingo, |
| 0:29.7 | just what pays off in real apps. Join me, along with Peter Wang and Calvin Hendrix Parker, |
| 0:35.0 | for a fun, fast-moving conversation. |
| 0:39.0 | This is Talk Python to Me. |
| 0:43.7 | Episode 524 recorded September 22nd, 2025. |
| 0:47.0 | Talk Python of me. |
| 0:48.3 | Yeah, we ready to roll. |
| 0:49.7 | Upgrading the cold. |
| 0:51.2 | No fear of getting old. |
| 0:52.4 | They sink in the air. |
| 1:11.2 | New frameworks in sight, geeky rap on deck. Quark crew. It's time to unite. We started in pyramid. Cruising old school. Welcome to Talk Python to Me, a weekly podcast on Python. This is your host, Michael Kennedy. Follow me on Massadon, where I'm at M. Kennedy and follow the podcast using At Talk Python, both accounts over at Fostodon.org, and keep up with the show and listen to over nine years of episodes at |
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