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Faster Python with Go shared objects (the easy way)

There's no two ways about it, Python is slow. I felt this in particular when exploring how to sanitize potentially malicious HTML content in the CTFd content editor. The two options for sanitizing/processing HTML in Python both have some tradeoffs: Poorly but quickly parse HTML with the available HTML4

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Encoding Non-Printable Bytes in Python 3

TL;DR bytes -> str: In []: b'\x90\x90\x90\x90'.decode('latin-1') Out[]: '\x90\x90\x90\x90' str -> bytes: In []: '\x90\x90\x90\x90'.encode('latin-1') Out[]: b'\x90\x90\x90\x90' But Why Tho Sometimes when you're programming or you're playing CTFs, you'll