On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 10:51 PM, Serhiy Storchaka <storch...@gmail.com> wrote: > http://bugs.python.org/issue20115
Interestingly, the file linked in the last comment on that issue [1] ties in with another part of this thread, regarding binary blobs in Python scripts. It uses open(sys.argv[0],'rb') to find itself, and has the binary data embedded as a comment. (Though the particular technique strikes me as fragile; to prevent newlines from messing things up, \n becomes #% and \r becomes #$, but I don't see any protection against those sequences occurring naturally in the blob. Given that it's a bz2 archive, I would expect any two-byte sequence to be capable of occurring.) To be quite honest, I wouldn't mind if Python objected to this kind of code. If I were writing it myself, I'd use a triple-quoted string containing some kind of textualized version - either the repr of the string, or some kind of base 64 or base 85 encoding. Binary data embedded literally will prevent non-ASCII file encodings. ChrisA [1] http://ftp.waf.io/pub/release/waf-1.7.16 _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
