On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That was an April Fool's RFC.
See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day_RFC -- it has
a ton of these. Great fun reading through some of them on an idle
Saturday afternoon. :-)
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--Guido van Rossum (hom
On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Josiah Carlson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 10:09 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Josiah Carlson wrote:
>>> The standard high-bit-density encoding past base-64 is base-85
>>> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascii85), which en
On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 10:09 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Josiah Carlson wrote:
>> The standard high-bit-density encoding past base-64 is base-85
>> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascii85), which encodes 4 binary bytes
>> as 5 ascii bytes, versus 3 binary bytes as 4 ascii bytes
Josiah Carlson wrote:
> The standard high-bit-density encoding past base-64 is base-85
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascii85), which encodes 4 binary bytes
> as 5 ascii bytes, versus 3 binary bytes as 4 ascii bytes. It works,
> is an RFC somewhere,
RFC 1924, published on April 1, 1996, to short
The standard high-bit-density encoding past base-64 is base-85
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascii85), which encodes 4 binary bytes
as 5 ascii bytes, versus 3 binary bytes as 4 ascii bytes. It works,
is an RFC somewhere, ... and maybe should find it's way into the
Python standard library's codec p
It's true, I didn't pay attention to that.
So the next encoding possible would of base-128 (7-bits encoding),
althought I don't know if were possible since that there would than
use non-printable characters and could change the text (by use of
chars. as Backspace or Delete).
On 2 ago, 03:21, Stev
Guido van Rossum wrote:
This sounds more like something to bring up in
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Also, rather than being vague about the
motivation ("would be very interesting", you ought to think of a
realistic use case. For example, are there existing encodings of
binary data using base-96? I'm not awa
This sounds more like something to bring up in
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Also, rather than being vague about the
motivation ("would be very interesting", you ought to think of a
realistic use case. For example, are there existing encodings of
binary data using base-96? I'm not aware of any.
On Fri, Aug 1,
I think that would be very interesting thay Python would have a module
for working on base 96 too. [1]
It could be converted to base 96 the digests from hashlib module, and
random bytes used on crypto (to create the salt, the IV, or a key).
As you can see here [2], the printable ASCII characters
