Rev. Johnny Healey With its clean, highly readable syntax, Python would seem to be quite a challenge for a programmer attempting to write obfuscated code. Fortunately, it provides a wide variety of high-level abstractions that can be misused in exciting ways. This survey of obfuscation strategies will include topics such as decorator abuse, lambda calculus, and bytecode manipulation.
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