On 2013-04-25, at 11:25 , Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>
> Besides, I would consider a RFC more authoritative than a
> Wikipedia definition.
> Base encoding of data is used in many situations to store or transfer
> data in environments that, perhaps for legacy reasons, are restricted
> to US-ASCII [1] data.
so the output is US-ASCII data, a byte stream.
Stephen is correct that you could decide you don't care about those
semantics, and implement base64 encoding as a bytes -> str decoding then
requiring a re-encoding (to ascii) before wire transmission.
The clarity of the interface (or lack thereof) would probably make users
want to send a strongly worded letter to whoever implemented it though,
I don't think `data.decode('base64').encode('ascii')` would fit the
"obviousness" or "readability" expectations of most users.
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