Recently, I was tipped off about certain sites performing localhost port scans against visitors, presumably as part of a user fingerprinting and tracking or bot detection. This didn't sit well with me, so I went about investigating the practice, and it seems many sites are port scanning visitors for dubious reasons.
Source: Why is This Website Port Scanning me, an article by Charlie Belmer.
The great thing about Python is that it makes developers’ lives easy — import a couple of libraries to do the hard stuff for you, and you’re off to the races. This holds true when creating a threaded web scanner that’s capable of making multiple concurrent requests — with Python it’s easy to accomplish in a short amount of dev time.
Source: How to Create a Threaded Web Scanner in Python, an article by Kevin Dawe.
An integer in Python is not a traditional 2, 4, or 8-byte implementation but rather it is implemented as an array of digits in base 230 which enables Python to support super long integers. Since there is no explicit limit on the size, working with integers in Python is extremely convenient as we can carry out operations on very long numbers without worrying about integer overflows. This convenience comes at a cost of allocation being expensive and trivial operations like addition, multiplication, division being inefficient.
Source: Python Caches Integers, an article by Arpit Bhayani.