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, ...

Python regex character classes make it easier to identify specific patterns inside strings without writing unnecessarily long regular expressions. This lesson demonstrates how \d matches digits while ...

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 ...