Let’s begin with a simple example taken ... resulting compiled file has no dependencies except the version of Python it was compiled for, and so can be bundled into a binary wheel.

I have a string of 1s and 0s that represents a binary number ... If I use int(), Python assumes decimal and creates a number that's much, much bigger (in the above example, it would return ...

The access token belonged to the Python Software Foundation’s director of infrastructure and was accidentally included in a compiled binary file that was published as part of a container image ...