Bill Janssen wrote: > Well, I can certainly understand the bytes->base64->bytes side of > thing too. The "text" produced is specified as using "a 65-character > subset of US-ASCII", so that's really bytes.
But it then goes on to say that these same characters are also a subset of EBCDIC. So it seems to be talking about characters as abstract entities here, not as bit patterns. Greg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com