[issue27846] Base64 expansion factor is 4 to 3, not 6 to 4

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[issue27846] Base64 expansion factor is 4 to 3, not 6 to 4

Berker Peksag added the comment: New changeset b93a52b136fd2285f2891eef91c50e3d36ea6f36 by Berker Peksag (Miss Islington (bot)) in branch '3.6': bpo-27846: Delete incorrect note in base64 docs (GH-5666) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b93a52b136fd2285f2891eef91c50e3d36ea6f36 ---

[issue27846] Base64 expansion factor is 4 to 3, not 6 to 4

Berker Peksag added the comment: New changeset 2e8d9003ed7a97955c36fa19a9ce7c43d9ec83e1 by Berker Peksag (Miss Islington (bot)) in branch '3.7': bpo-27846: Delete incorrect note in base64 docs (GH-5666) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/2e8d9003ed7a97955c36fa19a9ce7c43d9ec83e1 ---

[issue27846] Base64 expansion factor is 4 to 3, not 6 to 4

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Berker Peksag added the comment: New changeset 88c38a4049ded0e1f197fec3e76be7c0c0e83d7a by Berker Peksag (Zackery Spytz) in branch 'master': bpo-27846: Delete incorrect note in base64 docs (GH-5666) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/88c38a4049ded0e1f197fec3e76be7c0c0e83d7a --

[issue27846] Base64 expansion factor is 4 to 3, not 6 to 4

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[issue27846] Base64 expansion factor is 4 to 3, not 6 to 4

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[issue27846] Base64 expansion factor is 4 to 3, not 6 to 4

Jens Jørgen Mortensen added the comment: That would also be a solution. Also, the sentence is not quite grammatically correct: "when space [is] expensive". -- versions: -Python 3.5 ___ Python tracker __

[issue27846] Base64 expansion factor is 4 to 3, not 6 to 4

R. David Murray added the comment: Maybe we should just drop that note. To achieve any sort of clarity we'd have to say that base85 is 15 for 12 and base64 is 16 for 12. And putting it that way it doesn't seem like all that much of an advantage :) -- nosy: +r.david.murray versions: +

[issue27846] Base64 expansion factor is 4 to 3, not 6 to 4

New submission from Jens Jørgen Mortensen: The documentation has a note saying: "Base64 has an expansion factor of 6 to 4". I believe it should be 4 to 3. https://docs.python.org/dev/library/base64.html -- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 273543 nosy: Jens.Jør