https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ffa24aab107b5bc3c6ad31a6a245c226bf24b208
commit: ffa24aab107b5bc3c6ad31a6a245c226bf24b208
branch: main
author: Petr Viktorin <[email protected]>
committer: encukou <[email protected]>
date: 2024-05-24T00:11:45+02:00
summary:
Clarify base64.a85encode docs: *wrapcols* doesn't count the newline (GH-119409)
files:
M Doc/library/base64.rst
M Lib/base64.py
diff --git a/Doc/library/base64.rst b/Doc/library/base64.rst
index cec9a6cef4bf7d..834ab2536e6c14 100644
--- a/Doc/library/base64.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/base64.rst
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ The modern interface provides:
*wrapcol* controls whether the output should have newline (``b'\n'``)
characters added to it. If this is non-zero, each output line will be
- at most this many characters long.
+ at most this many characters long, excluding the trailing newline.
*pad* controls whether the input is padded to a multiple of 4
before encoding. Note that the ``btoa`` implementation always pads.
diff --git a/Lib/base64.py b/Lib/base64.py
index 25164d1a1df4fc..5a7e790a193380 100755
--- a/Lib/base64.py
+++ b/Lib/base64.py
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ def a85encode(b, *, foldspaces=False, wrapcol=0, pad=False,
adobe=False):
wrapcol controls whether the output should have newline (b'\\n') characters
added to it. If this is non-zero, each output line will be at most this
- many characters long.
+ many characters long, excluding the trailing newline.
pad controls whether the input is padded to a multiple of 4 before
encoding. Note that the btoa implementation always pads.
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