Using a mix of Unicode characters (Phylum) While the text in these strings, besides the different fonts, looks almost normal in visual inspections, it makes a massive difference for Python ...

The appropriate solution is to use Python 2's "Unicode strings". A Unicode string is just like a regular Python string, except it uses characters, rather than bytes. Indeed, Python 2's Unicode strings ...

Observed on the surface, the characters look normal and benign ... However, should the abuse of Unicode for hiding malicious Python code become a trend, it might become cause for concern.

Furthermore, the relative verbosity and expressiveness with which a given language prints these eleven Unicode characters has become a popular flex between platform advocates. Python and Java ...