On 6/9/2010 8:17 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 13:57:05 +0200
Dirkjan Ochtman<dirk...@ochtman.nl> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 13:40, Antoine Pitrou<solip...@pitrou.net> wrote:
No, I don't think so. If I'm using hex "encoding", it's because I want
to see a text representation of some arbitrary bytestring (in order to
display it inside another piece of text, for example).
In other words, the purpose of hex is precisely to give a textual
display of non-textual data.
Or I want to encode binary data in a non-binary-safe protocol, in
which case I probably want bytes.
In this case you would probably choose a more space-efficient
representation, such as base64 or base85.
Unless the receiver expects hex.
Please, hextext = str(somebytes.tranform('hex')) is quite easy and
explicit and will work for any bytes to ascii-subset transform, not just
'hex'.
Keep .transform and .untransform simple by *always* going to/from same
type.
Terry Jan Reedy
_______________________________________________
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
