[Python-Dev] Why does base64 return bytes? (original) (raw)
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Tue Jun 14 13:45:00 EDT 2016
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On Tue, Jun 14, 2016, at 13:05, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote:
Sorry, it is 2016, and I don't think at this point anyone can consider an ASCII string as a representative pattern of textual data in any field of application. Bytes are not text. Bytes with an associated, meaningful, encoding are text. I thought this had been through when Python 3 was out.
Of all the things that anyone has said in this thread, this makes the least contextual sense. The input to base64 encoding, which is what is under discussion, is not text in any way. It is images, it is zip files, it is executables, it could be the output of os.urandom (at least, provided it doesn't block ;) for all anyone cares.
The output is only an ascii string in the sense that it is a text string consisting of characters within (a carefully chosen subset of) ASCII's repertoire, but the output wasn't what he was claiming should be bytes in the sentence you replied to. Is your objection to the phrase "ascii string"?
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