On 10/01/21 4:29 pm, Bischoop wrote:
So what's that binascii
The binascii module contains implementations of various ways of encoding *binary* data as ascii text. The one you're using there is a format called "uuencode"; it was frequently used in the days before the WWW when people often sent arbitrary files to each other by email. There's another one called "base64" which is often used behind the scenes nowadays when you attach a file to an email message. If you're trying to convert between unicode strings (all text strings are unicode in Python 3) and ascii byte strings, the binascii module is NOT what you want. Instead, you should be using the encode and decode methods of the string objects themselves: Python 3.8.2 (default, Mar 23 2020, 11:36:18) [Clang 8.1.0 (clang-802.0.42)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> s = 'Hello World' >>> s 'Hello World' >>> b = s.encode('ascii') >>> b b'Hello World' >>> s2 = b.decode('ascii') >>> s2 'Hello World' -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list