I believe I'm having some trouble with data type conversions. Currently I have an encrypted string stored in a database where the database column is of type bytea. When I fetch the record, Python ...

Like many of us, [Austin] finds writing code satisfying — especially if it is challenging. His latest challenge: shoehorn something that looks like Python into 512 bytes. Ok, that didn’t work out, but ...

When you have byte sequences to work with it is tempting to simply write a for loop that processes each byte in turn. However, notice that there is no easy way to implement a shift operation on a ...

Moving from Python 2 to 3? Here's what you need to know about strings and their role in in your upgrade. An old joke asks "What do you call someone who speaks three languages? Trilingual. Two ...