Posted by Ian Eldred Pudney, Google Information Security  On Friday, we announced that we’ve released the Atheris Python fuzzing engine as... (more…)

This should have been obvious to me for a longer time, but until earlier today I did not really realize the severity of the issues caused by str.format on untrusted user input. It came up as a way to bypass the Jinja2 Sandbox in a way that would permit r...

Many Python developers are unaware of the extent to which you can use functional programming in Python, which is a shame: with few exceptions, functional programming allows you to write more concise and efficient code. Moreover, Python’s support for funct... (more…)

The fundamental nature of Cython can be summed up as follows: Cython is Python with C data types. (more…)

The female python was nearly 18ft long (5m) - and was pregnant with an astonishing 122 eggs. (more…)