51 - Dead Simple Python with Jason McDonald
From The Python Show by Learning about Python together
January 9, 2025 · 38 min
About this episode
In this episode, Jason McDonald discusses his book 'Dead Simple Python' and various topics related to Python programming.
In this episode, we have special guest, Jason McDonald, the author of Dead Simple Python from No Starch Press. We chatted about the following topics: * Python packages * Packaging in general * Python concurrency vs parallelism * Book writing * What’s coming in the 2nd edition of his Python book * and much more! Links Check out the following links from the show: * Get Dead Simple Python from No Starch * Check out Jason’s website * You can find Jason’s fiction books here The Python Show is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to The Python Show at www.pythonshow.com/subscribe
People in this episode
Host: Learning about Python together
Guest: Jason McDonald
Topics covered
- Python packages
- Packaging
- Python concurrency
- Python parallelism
- Book writing
- Second edition
Keywords
- Python
- programming
- concurrency
- parallelism
- book writing
- packaging
- No Starch Press
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: No Starch Press, The Python Show, Jason’s website
Books & works: Dead Simple Python
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