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Brian #1: Linting as Lightweight Defect Detection for Python


flake8,
pycodestyle, formerly pep8 tool https://pycodestyle.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
pep257 can be checked with flake8-docstrings
pydocstyle, http://www.pydocstyle.org/


Michael #2: You should build an Alexa skill


Jacqueline Wilson wrote Amazon Alexa Skill Recipe with Python 3.6
Ingredients:

A developer account on https://developer.amazon.com (“Amazon Developer Console”)
An AWS account on https://aws.amazon.com (“AWS Console”)
Beginner knowledge of Python 3.x syntax

Create a “What’s for dinner” bot
Amazon calls these utterances:

“What should I have for dinner?”
“Do you have a dinner idea?”
“What’s for dinner?”

Tie the commands to an AWS Lambda function (returns a JSON response)
Test via Alexa Skill Testing Tool


Brian #3: RISE


Reveal IPython Slide Extension
Making slides with Jupyter notebooks


Michael #4: Closer


Run, monitor and close remote SSH processes automatically
Closer was born because I had trouble with killing up processes I set up remotely via SSH. That is, you want to run some SSH process in the background, and then you want to kill it, just like you would a local subprocess.
Main features:

kill the remote process (either by choice, or automatically at the end of the calling process)
capture the remote process’s output
live monitoring of remote process output
get a callback upon remote process’ death



Brian #5: Checklist for *Python libraries APIs*

Michael #6: Fades


Fades is a system that automatically handles the virtualenvs in the cases normally found when writing scripts and simple programs, and even helps to administer big projects.
fades will automagically create a new virtualenv (or reuse a previous created one), installing the necessary dependencies, and execute your script inside that virtualenv, with the only requirement of executing the script with fades and also marking the required dependencies.
At the moment you execute the script, fades will search a virtualenv with the marked dependencies, if it doesn’t exists fades will create it, and execute the script in that environment.
Indicating dependencies (in code or via CLI)


import somemodule # fades == 3
import somemodule # fades >= 2.1
import somemodule # fades >=2.1,<2.8,!=2.6.5



Can control the Python version the env is based upon
Can ask for a “refresh” on the virtual env
You can also configure fades using .ini config files.
How to clean up old virtualenvs?


Listener comment, RE: Episode 32:

Jan Oglop:

Hello Michael and Brian, I wanted to thank you for amazing work you do. And let you know that you have helped me to find the working place from my dreams! My colleagues has similar hobbies and loves python as much as I do!

Thank you again!