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, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Kless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 are 94 > (decimal code range of 33-126). So only left to add another 2 > characters more; the space (code 32), and one not-printable char > (which doesn't create any problem) by last. > > > [1] http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Modules/binascii.c > [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1 -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
