Simon Willison’s Weblog

19th August 2023

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TIL A simple pattern for inlining binary content in a Python script — For [simonw/til issue #82](https://github.com/simonw/til/issues/82) I needed to embed some binary content directly in a Python script.

Posted 19th August 2023 at 4:35 pm

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