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The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
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Python at Microsoft
37 minutes Posted Jun 13, 2018 at 4:00 am.
– The history of Python at Microsoft
– The origination of IronPython
– Python tools for Visual Studio
– What Microsoft is doing with Python
– Why Python is good for people new to programming
– Pythonic
– PEP 8
– Black
– Pylint
– CPython
– Opensource at Microsoft
– The future of Python
– The latest in Python
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We talked with Steve Dower and Dan Taylor at Microsoft Build 2018 about the history of Python at Microsoft, the origination of IronPython, Python Tools for Visual Studio, flying under the radar to add support Python, fighting from within to support open source, and more.
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Featuring:
Steve Dower – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteDan Taylor – Twitter, GitHubJerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Show Notes:
Topics
2:22 – The history of Python at Microsoft
3:15 – The origination of IronPython
4:05 – Python tools for Visual Studio
7:54 – What Microsoft is doing with Python
10:22 – Why Python is good for people new to programming
12:20 – Pythonic
13:52 – PEP 8
15:47 – Black
18:16 – Pylint
21:41 – CPython
26:01 – Opensource at Microsoft
28:29 – The future of Python
33:55 – The latest in Python
Links
IronPython
Python Visual Studio
Python Visual Studio Code extension
Black – the uncompromising Python code formatter
Pylint
CPython
Jupyter Notebooks
Visual Studio Team Services
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