In this episode, I'm chatting with Emily Morehouse — CPython core developer, former Python Steering Council member, PSF Fellow, and co-founder and director of engineering at Cuttlesoft. She holds three degrees in theater, computer science, and criminology, and picked up Python in college simply because it was more fun than C++.

After Guido van Rossum announced at a Python conference that he wanted more women in CPython core development, she emailed Guido. He said yes and personally mentored her. She went on to implement the walrus operator (:=), one of the most controversial features in Python's history and one of the things that ultimately led Guido to step down as BDFL. She also chaired PyCon US for three years, two of which went fully online during the pandemic.

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0:00 Episode highlights

0:26 Introduction