[Python-Dev] bytes.from_hex() (original) (raw)

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Fri Mar 3 08:10:22 CET 2006

"Greg" == Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> writes:

Greg> (BTW, doesn't the fact that you *can* load an XML file into
Greg> what we call a "text editor" say something?)

Why not answer that question for yourself, and then turn that answer into a description of "text semantics"?

For me, it says that, just like a gzipped file or the Linux kernel, I can load an XML file into a text editor. But unlike the .gz or vmlinuz, I can easily find many useful things to do to the XML string in the text editor.

Doesn't that make base64 non-text by analogy to other "look but don't touch" strings like a .gz or vmlinuz?

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