Here we explain a little bit about Unicode and why we may encounter UnicodeDecodeError or UnicodeEncodeError exceptions. While much of the world runs on UTF-8 these ...
As we’ve seen, strings are ordered collections of characters, delimited by quotation marks. But what kind of characters can be included in a string? Since Python 3.0, strings are composed of Unicode ...
Use ugrapheme to make your Python and Cython code see strings as a sequence of grapheme characters, so that the length of 👩🏽‍🔬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Hi is 4 instead of 13. Trivial operations like reversing ...
The Unicode Consortium has finalized and released version 16.0 of the Unicode standard, the elaborate character set that ensures that our phones, tablets, PCs, and other devices can all communicate ...
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What's the best IDE for Python? Here's how IDLE, Komodo, PyCharm, PyDev, Microsoft's Python and Python Tools extensions for Visual Studio Code, and Spyder stack up. Of all the metrics you could use to ...
Cybersecurity researchers from Phylum have found a new form of malware in a PyPI package that was using Unicode to hide. Unicode is a global encoding standard used for different languages and scripts, ...
A malicious Python package on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository has been found to use Unicode as a trick to evade detection and deploy an info-stealing malware. The package in question, named ...
A malicious Python package on PyPI uses Unicode as an obfuscation technique to evade detection while stealing and exfiltrating developers' account credentials and other sensitive data from compromised ...