[Python-Dev] Why can't I encode/decode base64 without importing a module? (original) (raw)
Tres Seaver tseaver at palladion.com
Wed Apr 24 19:01:10 CEST 2013
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On 04/23/2013 09:29 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
By RFC specification, BASE64 is a textual representation of arbitrary binary data.
It isn't "text" in the sense Py3k means: it is a representation for transmission on-the-wire for protocols which requre 7-bit-safe data. Nobody working with base64-encoded data is going to expect to do "normal" string processing on that data: the closest thing to that is splitting it into 72-byte chunks for transmission via e-mail.
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