Martin Morrison added the comment: Ok, I'm not even sure that Mercurial follows RFC1924! That RFC is specifically for encoding IPv6 addresses, and mandates that the calculations be performed on a 128bit integer.
The Mercurial implementation seems to follow the Ascii85 policy of taking each 4 bytes separately and doing 32bit arithmetic, but uses the lookup table from RFC1924, and is less lenient about spacing, and has no compression for sequences of zeroes. It therefore looks like Mercurial (and I guess Git) have their own, non-standard base64 encoding. The Web at large mostly has "standard" Ascii85 encoding/decoding described. RFC1924 itself has a Python implementation on Github: https://github.com/drkjam/netaddr/blob/rel-0.7.x/netaddr/ip/rfc1924.py So I'm not sure what you want to do. I would suggest a standard Ascii85 encoder is definitely useful, and provides feature parity with Ruby. If we want the standard library to be able to read/write Mercurial/Git base64 encoded files, then I guess that can be added too. If we think RFC1924 is useful/used, then the implementation in the netaddr lib looks right. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17618> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
