Message 186229 - Python tracker (original) (raw)

So I'm not sure what you want to do. I would suggest a standard Ascii85 encoder is definitely useful, and provides feature parity with Ruby. If we want the standard library to be able to read/write Mercurial/Git base64 encoded files, then I guess that can be added too. If we think RFC1924 is useful/used, then the implementation in the netaddr lib looks right.

Agreed for both the Ascii85 encoder and the hg/git brand of base85 (which is used for "binary diffs", by the way). I don't think supporting RFC1924 is useful, though.

(I think using "ascii85" and "base85" for those encodings, respectively, provides a nice way to distinguish them)