Includes an interview with David Malcolm!

Projects mentioned:

• Stepping Through CPython, my talk from PyCon 2012 that explains a bunch of the internals of Python.
• Static Analysis Of Python Extension Modules Using GCC, David's presentation from PyCon 2012 that talks in depth about his static analysis reference-count tool.
• Dude, Where's My Ram?, One of David's presentations from PyCon 2011, "a deep dive into how Python uses memory".
• Using Python to debug C and C++ code (using gdb), David's other presentation from PyCon 2011, about his gdb Python extension and the technology he created using it.
• David's blog, which includes samples of the HTML produced by his Python API reference-count static analyzer for GCC.
• The current version of Python-mode for Emacs, which was originally written by Tim Peters but is now maintained by a small team led by Barry Warsaw.

Thanks to Brett Cannon for suggesting many of the news topics mentioned.

David Malcolm. (Image credit: Larry Hastings.)