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 ...

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 ...

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 ...