Today’s blog post is going to contain fairly advanced Python hackery. We’ll take two functions — one is a wrapper for the other, but also adds some positional arguments. And we’ll change the signature displayed everywhere from the uninformative f(new_arg, *args, **kwargs) to something more appropriate.

Gynvael Coldwind is a security researcher at Google, who hosts weekly livestreams about security and programming in Polish and English). As part of the streams, he gives out missions — basically, CTF-style reverse engineering tasks. Yesterday’s mission was about Elvish — I mean Paint — I mean Python programming and bytecode.