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+<div class="transcript transcript-mainVideo"><a name="python-mainVideo-transcript"></a><h1>Transcript</h1>
+
+[[!template text="""Okay, so welcome to this session about interactive Python""" start="00:00:00.000" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""programming. My name is David Vujic and I live and work in""" start="00:00:04.440" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""Stockholm, Sweden. a developer and today I focus""" start="00:00:09.680" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""mainly on Python software development. So I do this at work""" start="00:00:15.320" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""and I also do this on my spare time in my open source projects.""" start="00:00:20.440" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""Before that, I've been part of the Lisp community. I've""" start="00:00:26.000" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""been a Clojure developer, and also, like, way back,""" start="00:00:30.480" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""I was in the Microsoft world and developed C# and .NET stuff.""" start="00:00:33.701" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""What I've been doing lately is to try to improve the""" start="00:00:40.280" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""developer experience when you write Python code. So what I""" start="00:00:46.000" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""want to talk about is this, but also I want to begin with""" start="00:00:52.400" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""feedback loops because I think it's very related to this""" start="00:00:56.160" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""interactive programming style, like having this nice""" start="00:01:00.840" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""feedback when you write code.""" start="00:01:05.360" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""So I'm going to begin with that.""" start="00:01:07.068" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+
+<div class="transcript-heading">[[!template new="1" text="""Feedback loops""" start="00:01:10.534" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]</div>[[!template text="""So this image, you know, this circle is supposed to be a""" start="00:01:10.534" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""visualization of a feedback loop. Let's say we write our""" start="00:01:14.200" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""code and then we deploy it to production. Then when it's""" start="00:01:19.880" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""running there, we can check if things work, or if maybe someone""" start="00:01:25.240" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""else will let us know. Maybe our customers will let us know.""" start="00:01:29.640" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""That's a pretty slow feedback loop with potential risks of""" start="00:01:35.320" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""damaging your business or whatever.""" start="00:01:39.640" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""This is obvious, of course.""" start="00:01:41.868" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""So a faster feedback loop probably is to have""" start="00:01:44.168" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""some kind of automation when you do commits""" start="00:01:50.001" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""or maybe you have this pull request things and even reviews.""" start="00:01:54.067" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""So maybe not always as fast as deploy,""" start="00:01:59.734" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""don't deploy directly to production, but""" start="00:02:02.934" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""it's probably safer and often you get this automated""" start="00:02:05.840" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""feedback faster anyway. But it's still kind of slow. You""" start="00:02:10.540" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""have to wait. You have to push things to GitHub maybe and""" start="00:02:16.200" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""wait. So there's faster ways for sure to get feedback.""" start="00:02:20.240" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""So a much faster way is to write code,""" start="00:02:24.280" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""and write some unit tests, and run those unit tests.""" start="00:02:27.968" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""So then you do everything on your local machine""" start="00:02:31.368" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""and you will fairly quickly learn if your code does""" start="00:02:33.468" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""what you think it does or if it doesn't. I want to zoom in to""" start="00:02:39.040" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""this test write code and test flow a bit. Let's do that.""" start="00:02:47.160" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+
+<div class="transcript-heading">[[!template new="1" text="""Test-driven development""" start="00:02:56.000" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]</div>[[!template text="""As a developer, I have used a thing called test-driven""" start="00:02:56.000" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""development for quite some time. I find that this way of""" start="00:02:59.760" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""working is very fast when it comes to getting feedback on""" start="00:03:06.000" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""what your code does and how you should continue the""" start="00:03:11.260" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""development. So, test-driven development,""" start="00:03:14.520" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""basically that you start writing a test for""" start="00:03:19.981" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""something that you want to develop, and then you continue""" start="00:03:24.221" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""developing that, and then you go back to the test, and modify""" start="00:03:27.021" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""and modify the code, and you go back and forth between the""" start="00:03:31.020" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""tests and the code.""" start="00:03:35.080" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""It's sort of like a ping-pong game. I find this very""" start="00:03:36.960" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""effective when you want to get feedback and to know how to""" start="00:03:44.420" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""continue the development. The most important thing""" start="00:03:50.520" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""that I feel is that you know what the code does.""" start="00:03:57.234" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""You learn very quickly.""" start="00:04:01.701" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+
+<div class="transcript-heading">[[!template new="1" text="""REPL-driven development""" start="00:04:05.560" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]</div>[[!template text="""Let's zoom into this TDD flow a little bit. The last couple of""" start="00:04:05.560" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""years, I've been doing a slightly different thing which is""" start="00:04:12.200" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""called REPL-driven development. REPL-driven""" start="00:04:17.380" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""development is very similar to test-driven development,""" start="00:04:21.980" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""but I find it even quicker. You get feedback even quicker""" start="00:04:25.720" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""than with a regular TDD setup. So REPL-driven development""" start="00:04:31.160" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""is about writing and evaluating code in a REPL basically.""" start="00:04:34.980" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""And you can do experiments and you can refactor and""" start="00:04:41.200" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""re-evaluate and you get instant feedback on what the code""" start="00:04:46.840" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""does and what you need to change. So I think that's even""" start="00:04:51.700" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""faster than test-driven development.""" start="00:04:54.800" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""Okay, REPL driven development. Let's go back. What's the""" start="00:04:59.520" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""REPL? Most of developers know what a REPL is. The most common""" start="00:05:02.900" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""setup is you open this shell and you use the REPL for your""" start="00:05:10.760" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""programming language. In this case I'm using the Python""" start="00:05:16.400" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""REPL or the IPython REPL which is an enhanced REPL for Python""" start="00:05:19.360" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""development. So what happens here is that we start a REPL""" start="00:05:25.620" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""session in isolation. So this session knows about the""" start="00:05:30.680" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""Python environment. So it knows about the Python language""" start="00:05:34.920" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""basically. So as soon as we start writing things, adding""" start="00:05:38.120" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""variables or creating writing functions or even doing""" start="00:05:42.360" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""imports. Then the session will be more and more aware of the""" start="00:05:47.360" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""code so we will add things to the to the session and then that""" start="00:05:51.680" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""means that we can run functions we can print out these""" start="00:05:55.820" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""variables and things like that. But with REPL driven""" start="00:06:00.520" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""development it's not really that well at least not what I""" start="00:06:05.860" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""mean with REPL driven development. So what I'm thinking of""" start="00:06:09.840" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""is that you are in your code editor where you have your""" start="00:06:14.040" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""autocomplete, and you have your syntax highlighting and""" start="00:06:19.640" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""your favorite theme, color theme, and all of those things. But""" start="00:06:22.800" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""instead, you have this running REPL in the background or in a""" start="00:06:30.460" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""smaller window or buffer. So that means that you write code""" start="00:06:34.980" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""and you can send that code to the running REPL, to the REPL""" start="00:06:41.140" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""session. You write and do everything as you would do when""" start="00:06:45.320" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""writing your code basically. In this case, in this""" start="00:06:50.400" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""example, I have evaluated these two functions. I've sent""" start="00:06:55.220" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""them to the REPL session so it's aware of these functions.""" start="00:07:00.600" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""Then I switched to a separate different module and""" start="00:07:05.820" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""evaluated that one. So the REPL session now knows about""" start="00:07:10.400" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""these two functions and also these two variables. That""" start="00:07:14.040" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""means that I can evaluate the state of those variables and""" start="00:07:19.040" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""change code and re-evaluate and things like that. So in this""" start="00:07:24.000" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""example if you look in the smaller area there you see that I""" start="00:07:29.000" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""have evaluated this res variable on line 6 and the output was""" start="00:07:33.640" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""that it's a dictionary with two keys and two values""" start="00:07:39.640" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""basically. So this setup works in basically any of your""" start="00:07:42.400" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""favorite code editors. So you can do this in Visual Studio""" start="00:07:51.220" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""Code, you can do this in PyCharm or Vim. But what I have done is""" start="00:07:54.080" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""that... More like what I have missed is that when I write code""" start="00:08:01.240" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""and do this evaluation, this is really cool, but then I need""" start="00:08:07.120" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
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+[[!template text="""have my focus on the code and then I have to look in a different""" start="00:08:21.980" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""place to know the results. And if it's a larger output, then""" start="00:08:25.760" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""maybe I need to scroll. So I wanted to find out if it was""" start="00:08:31.800" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""possible to make this even smoother and faster, this""" start="00:08:37.480" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""feedback loop even faster, so I don't have to switch""" start="00:08:43.480" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""context. What I've done here is that... I can select a row or a""" start="00:08:45.480" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""region and I can evaluate and then an overlay, a small pop-up""" start="00:08:52.120" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""shows up with the evaluated result right next to it. So I can""" start="00:08:58.080" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""change code and re-evaluate and quickly see the result of it""" start="00:09:03.120" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""without doing this context switching. So the way I've done""" start="00:09:07.520" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""it is that I wanted to reuse the existing tooling that I""" start="00:09:12.641" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
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+[[!template text="""REPL, already does this evaluation. So I figured maybe I can""" start="00:09:27.740" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""extract the data and do this visualization as a separate""" start="00:09:31.560" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""thing. That's how I've done it. What I've done is that""" start="00:09:35.360" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""I've created this overlay and placed it where my cursor""" start="00:09:40.840" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""currently is, right next to the code. Then I've""" start="00:09:47.200" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""extracted the evaluated result and put it in this overlay.""" start="00:09:50.860" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""I also want this overlay to have this nice looking syntax,""" start="00:09:55.720" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""so I've set it to this Python mode, so we get this syntax""" start="00:10:01.040" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""highlighting. Make it look very readable. And as a nice""" start="00:10:04.760" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""developer experience thing,""" start="00:10:10.560" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
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+[[!template text="""of things I've added. So putting the overlay at the right""" start="00:10:25.680" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""place and feed it with the evaluated data and then make it""" start="00:10:29.000" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""disappear when it's not interesting to look at anymore.""" start="00:10:33.280" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
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+[[!template text="""that unique ID and it will be connected to that running""" start="00:12:23.520" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
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+<div class="transcript-heading">[[!template new="1" text="""FastAPI CRUD""" start="00:12:30.920" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]</div>[[!template text="""In this example, I've created this FastAPI CRUD app that""" start="00:12:30.920" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
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+[[!template text="""you can do all these things. I'm running this FastAPI app""" start="00:12:46.400" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""in the kernel and then I've connected to, I've connected to""" start="00:12:51.640" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""the kernel in my editor too. Both of them are connected to""" start="00:12:58.060" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
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+[[!template text="""some data. I'm going to add this, creating this message.""" start="00:13:09.720" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""What I get back is a message ID. I want to experiment in""" start="00:13:15.240" video="mainVideo-python" id="subtitle"]]
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+</div>
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+Captioner: sachac
+
Questions or comments? Please e-mail [emacsconf-org-private@gnu.org](mailto:emacsconf-org-private@gnu.org?subject=Comment%20for%20EmacsConf%202023%20python%3A%20Interactive%20Python%20programming%20in%20Emacs)
diff --git a/2025/info/python-before.md b/2025/info/python-before.md
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@@ -8,12 +8,12 @@ The following image shows where the talk is in the schedule for Sat 2025-12-06.
Format: 20-min talk ; Q&A: BigBlueButton conference room <https://media.emacsconf.org/2025/current/bbb-python.html> Etherpad: <https://pad.emacsconf.org/2025-python>
Etherpad: <https://pad.emacsconf.org/2025-python>
Discuss on IRC: [#emacsconf-dev](https://chat.emacsconf.org/?join=emacsconf,emacsconf-dev)
-Status: Ready to stream
+Status: Now playing on the conference livestream
<div>Times in different time zones:</div><div class="times" start="2025-12-06T16:20:00Z" end="2025-12-06T16:40:00Z"><div class="conf-time">Saturday, Dec 6 2025, ~11:20 AM - 11:40 AM EST (US/Eastern)</div><div class="others"><div>which is the same as:</div>Saturday, Dec 6 2025, ~10:20 AM - 10:40 AM CST (US/Central)<br />Saturday, Dec 6 2025, ~9:20 AM - 9:40 AM MST (US/Mountain)<br />Saturday, Dec 6 2025, ~8:20 AM - 8:40 AM PST (US/Pacific)<br />Saturday, Dec 6 2025, ~4:20 PM - 4:40 PM UTC <br />Saturday, Dec 6 2025, ~5:20 PM - 5:40 PM CET (Europe/Paris)<br />Saturday, Dec 6 2025, ~6:20 PM - 6:40 PM EET (Europe/Athens)<br />Saturday, Dec 6 2025, ~9:50 PM - 10:10 PM IST (Asia/Kolkata)<br />Sunday, Dec 7 2025, ~12:20 AM - 12:40 AM +08 (Asia/Singapore)<br />Sunday, Dec 7 2025, ~1:20 AM - 1:40 AM JST (Asia/Tokyo)</div></div><div><strong><a href="/2025/watch/dev/">Find out how to watch and participate</a></strong></div>
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+<div class="vid mainVideo"><video controls preload="none" id="mainVideo-python"><source src="https://media.emacsconf.org/2025/emacsconf-2025-python--interactive-python-programming-in-emacs--david-vujic--main.webm" />captions="""<track label="English" kind="captions" srclang="en" src="/2025/captions/emacsconf-2025-python--interactive-python-programming-in-emacs--david-vujic--main.vtt" default />"""<p><em>Your browser does not support the video tag. Please download the video instead.</em></p></video><div></div>Duration: 19:52 minutes<div class="files resources"><ul><li><a href="https://pad.emacsconf.org/2025-python">Open Etherpad</a></li><li><a href="https://media.emacsconf.org/2025/current/bbb-python.html">Open public Q&A</a></li><li><a href="https://media.emacsconf.org/2025/emacsconf-2025-python--interactive-python-programming-in-emacs--david-vujic--intro.vtt">Download --intro.vtt</a></li><li><a href="https://media.emacsconf.org/2025/emacsconf-2025-python--interactive-python-programming-in-emacs--david-vujic--intro.webm">Download --intro.webm</a></li><li><a href="https://media.emacsconf.org/2025/emacsconf-2025-python--interactive-python-programming-in-emacs--david-vujic--main.opus">Download --main.opus (11MB)</a></li><li><a href="https://media.emacsconf.org/2025/emacsconf-2025-python--interactive-python-programming-in-emacs--david-vujic--main.png">Download --main.png</a></li><li><a href="https://media.emacsconf.org/2025/emacsconf-2025-python--interactive-python-programming-in-emacs--david-vujic--main.vtt">Download --main.vtt</a></li><li><a href="https://media.emacsconf.org/2025/emacsconf-2025-python--interactive-python-programming-in-emacs--david-vujic--main.webm">Download --main.webm (37MB)</a></li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/uACM4a5MPQM">View on Youtube</a></li></ul></div></div>
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