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Learning Penetration Testing with Python

By : Christopher Duffy
Book Image

Learning Penetration Testing with Python

By: Christopher Duffy

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Learning Penetration Testing with Python
Credits
Disclaimer
About the Author
Acknowlegements
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Understanding dynamically typed languages


Python is a dynamically typed language, which means many things, but the most crucial aspect is how variables or objects are handled. Dynamically typed languages are usually synonymous with scripting languages, but this is not always the case, just to be clear. What this means to you when you write your script is that variables are interpreted at runtime, so they do not have to defined in size or by content.