[Python-Dev] Why does base64 return bytes? (original) (raw)

Daniel Holth dholth at gmail.com
Tue Jun 14 14:13:11 EDT 2016


IMO this is more a philosophical problem than a programming problem. base64 has a dual-nature. It is both text and bytes. At least it should fit in a 1-byte-per-character efficient Python 3 unicode string also. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20160614/ec5796d9/attachment.html>



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