Bengt Richter wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 23:33:15 +0100, Thomas Wouters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> note what base64 really is for. It's essence is to create a _character_
> sequence
> which can succeed in being encoded as ascii. The concept of base64 going
> str->str
> is really a mental shortcut for s_str.decode('base64').encode('ascii'), where
> 3 octets are decoded as code for 4 characters modulo padding logic.
Wouldn't it be...
obj.encode('base64').encode('ascii')
This would probably also work...
obj.encode('base64').decode('ascii') -> ascii alphabet in unicode
Where the underlying sequence might be ...
obj -> bytes -> bytes:base64 -> base64 ascii character set
The point is to have the data in a safe to transmit form that can
survive being encoded and decoded into different forms along the
transmission path and still be restored at the final destination.
base64 ascii character set -> bytes:base64 -> original bytes -> obj
* a related note, derived from this and your other post in this thread.
If the str type constructor had an encode argument like the unicode type
does, along with a str.encoded_with attribute. Then it might be
possible to depreciate the .decode() and .encode() methods and remove
them form P3k entirely or use them as data coders/decoders instead of
char type encoders.
It could also create a clear separation between character encodings and
data coding. The following should give an exception.
str(str, 'rot13'))
Rot13 isn't a character encoding, but a data coding method.
data_str.encode('rot13') # could be ok
But this wouldn't...
new_str = data_str.encode('latin_1') # could cause an exception
We'd have to use...
new_str = str(data_str, 'latin_1') # New string sub type...
Cheers,
Ronald Adam
_______________________________________________
Python-Dev mailing list
[email protected]
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev
Unsubscribe:
http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
