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 ...

Python's Unicode support can be easily abused to hide malicious string matches, making code appear innocuous while still performing malicious behavior. In this case, the stealing of sensitive data ...

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 ...