On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 6:59 AM, Daniel Holth <[email protected]> wrote: > It's shorter, and it's used extensively in the digital signature format I'm > using. > > On Sep 7, 2012 6:58 AM, "Paul Moore" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 6 September 2012 17:34, Daniel Holth <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Proposed edits to >> > https://bitbucket.org/dholth/python-peps/changeset/9c26fa50 >> > >> > In wheel I use urlsafe_b64encode_nopad() which omits the trailing = >> > characters, but although very easy to implement isn't included in the >> > stdlib. In this spec I use the stdlib urlsafe_b64encode(). >> >> Why urlsafe_b64encode, rather than just hexdigest which is what is used >> for md5? >> >> Paul.
On the other hand, why encode it at all? CSV supports shoving the raw bytes in there, no problem. ;-) _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
