{"podcast":{"title":"Talk Python To Me","slug":"talk-python-to-me","podcast_index_feed_id":742305,"rss_url":"https://talkpython.fm/episodes/rss","website_url":"https://talkpython.fm/","image_url":"https://cdn-podcast.talkpython.fm/static/img/talk-python-3000.jpg","author":"Michael Kennedy","episode_count":546,"summary":"Talk Python to Me is a weekly podcast hosted by developer and entrepreneur Michael Kennedy. We dive deep into the popular packages and software developers, data scientists, and incredible hobbyists doing amazing things with Python. If you're new to Python, you'll quickly learn the ins and outs of the community by hearing from the leaders. And if you've been Pythoning for years, you'll learn about your favorite packages and the hot new ones coming out of open source.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-python-to-me"},"episode":{"title":"#544: Wheel Next + Packaging PEPs","slug":"544-wheel-next-packaging-peps","published_at":"2026-04-10T16:56:54+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-python-to-me/544-wheel-next-packaging-peps","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-python-to-me","url":"https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/544/wheel-next-packaging-peps","audio_url":"https://talkpython.fm/episodes/download/544/wheel-next-packaging-peps.mp3","summary":"When you pip install a package with compiled code, the wheel you get is built for CPU features from 2009. Want newer optimizations like AVX2? Your installer has no way to ask for them. GPU support? You're on your own configuring special index URLs. The result is fat binaries, nearly gigabyte-sized wheels, and install pages that read like puzzle books. A coalition from NVIDIA, Astral, and QuanSight has been working on Wheel Next: A set of PEPs that let packages declare what hardware they need and let installers like uv pick the right build automatically. Just uv pip install torch and it works. I sit down with Jonathan Dekhtiar from NVIDIA, Ralf Gommers from Quansight and the NumPy and SciPy teams, and Charlie Marsh, founder of Astral and creator of uv, to dig into all of it.","meta_description":"When you pip install a package with compiled code, the wheel you get is built for CPU features from 2009. Want newer optimizations like AVX2? Your install…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4277,"processing_state":"processed","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/talk-python-to-me/episodes/544-wheel-next-packaging-peps/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/talk-python-to-me/544-wheel-next-packaging-peps.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}