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Re: base64.b64encode(data)

From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: base64.b64encode(data)
Date 2016-06-14 03:07 +1000
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On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 1:15 AM, Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Looking at this from the high-level perspective of Python, that makes it
>> conceptually bytes not text.
>
> I don't see how this is always the case.  From a high-level python
> perspective it's definitely text.  That's the whole point of base64!

Maybe what Python needs is an "ascii" type that's a subclass of both
str and bytes, and requires that the contents be <0x80. It is text, so
it can be combined with text strings; but it is also bytes, so when
you combine it with bytes strings, it'll behave as most people expect.

ChrisA

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base64.b64encode(data) Marcin Rak <mrak@sightlineinnovation.com> - 2016-06-12 11:56 -0700
  Re: base64.b64encode(data) Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-06-12 22:26 +0300
  Re: base64.b64encode(data) Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-06-13 12:22 +1000
    Re: base64.b64encode(data) Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-06-12 23:20 -0400
      Re: base64.b64encode(data) Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-06-13 15:16 +1000
        Re: base64.b64encode(data) Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-06-13 01:33 -0400
          Re: base64.b64encode(data) Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-06-13 09:45 +0300
          Re: base64.b64encode(data) Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-06-13 20:35 +1000
            Re: base64.b64encode(data) Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-06-13 09:36 -0400
              Re: base64.b64encode(data) Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-06-22 01:56 +1000
            Re: base64.b64encode(data) Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-06-13 20:20 -0400
        Re: base64.b64encode(data) Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2016-06-13 09:15 -0600
          Re: base64.b64encode(data) Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2016-06-14 11:04 +1200
        Re: base64.b64encode(data) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-06-14 03:07 +1000
          Re: base64.b64encode(data) Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2016-06-14 11:12 +1200
            Re: base64.b64encode(data) Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-06-13 21:19 -0400

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