>>>>> "Greg" == Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Greg> (BTW, doesn't the fact that you *can* load an XML file into Greg> what we call a "text editor" say something?) Why not answer that question for yourself, and then turn that answer into a description of "text semantics"? For me, it says that, just like a gzipped file or the Linux kernel, I can load an XML file into a text editor. But unlike the .gz or vmlinuz, I can easily find many useful things to do to the XML string in the text editor. Doesn't that make base64 non-text by analogy to other "look but don't touch" strings like a .gz or vmlinuz? -- School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com