[Python-Dev] base64 -- should b64encode introduce line breaks? (original) (raw)

Bill Janssen janssen at parc.com
Thu Sep 13 20:43:01 CEST 2007

I see that base64.b64encode and base64.standardb64encode no longer introduce line breaks into the output strings, as base64.encodestring does. Shouldn't there be an option on one of them to do this?

See:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-bugs-list/2001-October/007856.html

section 2.1 of http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3548.html

Perhaps adding MIME_b64encode() and PEM_b64encode() routines? Or just an optional parameter to standard_b64encode, called "max_line_length", defaulting to 0, meaning no max?

Bill

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