Most researchers writing software are not classically trained programmers. Instead, they learn Python organically, often developing unpythonic habits that negatively impact their software‘s performance.

In this talk, we present a new course on Python profiling and optimisation. We give an overview of the course contents, report on feedback from researchers at multiple universities who attended early versions of the course, and discuss our plans for developing the course further. Finally, we share how you can run the course at your own institution and contribute to it via the Software Carpentry Incubator program.