On Jul 30, 2007, at 1:24 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > I think you're missing the point, the point being that the most common > use needs bytes, so returning bytes is the most useful API design.
I'd say that encoding binary data in XML is at least in the running for most common use of base64. And for that use case, you'll need it as a text string, I think? James _______________________________________________ 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
