Using strings with contents that are supplied by users can be fraught with peril; SQL injection is a well-known technique for attacking applications that stems from that, for example. Generally, ...

It it now time to look at grouping bits together to form bytes. Python is unusual in that it can represent a bit pattern of arbitrary length using its bignum data type. Most other languages have to ...

There is one exception to the rule that you can mostly ignore the fact that Python strings are Unicode strings – comparing strings. In practice, comparing strings has always been harder than it might ...

To a large extent, though, these sound like the same problem as unsafe in Rust; sure, I can wrap all sorts of crawling horrors in unsafe, and have a Safe Rust API on top so that when you look at my ...