<a href="https://bitofpython.com/">A Little Bit of Python</a> is an occasional podcast on all things <a href="https://python.org">Python</a>. The four protagonists on the show are all core Python developers and members of the Python Software Foundation. They are: <a href="https://www.voidspace.org.uk">Michael Foord</a> (author of IronPython in Action and maintainer of unittest), <a href="https://www.amk.ca/">Andrew Kuchling</a> (creator of PyCrypto and one of the python.org webmasters), <a href="https://holdenweb.com/">Steve Holden</a> (PSF chairman), <a href="https://sayspy.blogspot.com/">Dr. Brett Cannon</a> (author of importlib amongst other things) and <a href="https://jessenoller.com/">Jesse Noller</a> (maintainer of multiprocessing).

We discuss the significance of the Global Interpreter Lock (or GIL) and recent work at improving it, PEP 3148 proposing futures as a new asynchronous execution method, some recent IronPython work, and a new Python podcast.

