-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/23/2013 09:29 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > By RFC specification, BASE64 is a *textual* representation of > arbitrary binary data.
It isn't "text" in the sense Py3k means: it is a representation for transmission on-the-wire for protocols which requre 7-bit-safe data. Nobody working with base64-encoded data is going to expect to do "normal" string processing on that data: the closest thing to that is splitting it into 72-byte chunks for transmission via e-mail. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlF4D9YACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ5nUACfWm4YEMarjUb7fEEpP+aMtaQr a7kAn1Pc8ufUwJzKHD0DgSxQ4H/uqf82 =CzTZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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
