This is the 10th episode of the Sad Python Girls Club Podcast, and we're excited to have Erik De Bonte as our special guest! Erik is a Principal Software Engineer working on Pylance, the default language server for Python in Visual Studio Code 🐍. In this episode, he shares his learnings and work on typed Python and a bit about what it was like ramping up on Pylance while also writing a PEP for the first time 🤯

To celebrate the release of our 10th episode, we also made a bingo card that you can use to cross-off things that may happen in each of our episodes 😝. Check it out!

As usual, here are a few of the resources and references we mentioned throughout the episode:

• Erik De Bonte @ GitHub


• Pylance extension for VS Code


• Real Python (& their podcast!)


• Fluent Python by Luciano Ramalho


• Advanced Visual Studio Code for Python Developers by Anthony Shaw


• Pyright, the type checker that powers up the Pylance experience in VS Code


• Pyre


• PyType


• Typing sig mailing list


• Python Data Classes


• PEP 557 - Data Classes


• PEP 681 - Data Class Transforms


• The dataclass_transform decorator


• Python 3.11 (which is out now!)


• Descriptors in Python


• Is This Band Emo? website: isthisbandemo.com


• Nobody's Hero by Rush

Intro Song: Pastel

Producer: Blue.P

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