In Python 2, you don't need to talk about byte strings explicitly, but by using them, you can make it very clear as to whether you're using bytes or characters.

Our mission for this week's Community Byte was to create a Python program to crack web-based passwords, like the ones you would see on an email or router login. I wanted it to be universal in the ...

So I have a program in Python for use on a Linux machine that's dealing with binary data flowing through what may be a Linux FIFO.I'm using Avinash Kak's BitVector to modify the data as it goes ...

Compilers for languages intended to be machine-independent, such as Java, Python, or C#, translate the source code into byte code for a virtual machine, which is then run in an interpreter for the ...