Talin wrote: > I believe that converting a Unicode string to a base64 encoded form is > necessarily a 2-step process.
Well, yes, but only because base64 itself takes arbitrary binary data as input, not Unicode strings. Encoding *anything* other than binary data as base64 is going to require an extra step in that sense. > So the fact > that you can vary one encoding without changing the other would seem to > argue for the notion that they are distinct and independent. I would say that the first encoding is outside the scope of base64 and therefore irrelevant to this discussion. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
