PyCon Portugal 2025

Cristián Maureira-Fredes

Cristián is is a serial conference and community organizer in many countries, and participates in different initiatives like the translation of the Python documentation into Spanish, PyLadies Berlin & Con, PyPI moderation, and a few more. He is one of the coordinators of the Python en Español initiative, that aims to gather all the Spanish speaking python communities in one place. Due to his contributions, he got awarded a PSF Fellowship in 2021 and got elected to the PSF Board of Directors in 2024. His day job is at The Qt Company, working as a team lead of the Qt for Python (PySide) project, and Qt Core (Berlin).


Sessions

07-25
16:20
30min
The role of C++ in the Python ecosystem: the case of the Qt framework
Cristián Maureira-Fredes

With the recent popularity of new programming languages that are improving the Python ecosystem, one cannot dismiss the role of “old” languages like C++, and how the new versions might stay relevant.
On this talk, we will dive directly into the internals on how the Qt for Python project brought one of the most popular C++ frameworks into Python - but not only with 1-to1 bindings.

Auditorium
07-26
10:30
120min
Understanding and expanding Python: hand-on experience with the Python internals
Cristián Maureira-Fredes

Understanding and expanding Python: hand-on experience with the Python internals

D -112, Floor -1 (Room Madeira)