Kless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I think that would be very interesting thay Python would have a module >for working on base 96 too. [1]
Well, then, write one. However, I'm not sure I see the point. Base 64 is convenient because 6 bits becomes 8 bits exactly, so 3 bytes translates exactly to 4 characters. With base 96, you would end up doing division instead of just shifting and masking; the conversion isn't as "neat". >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. This leaves some tricky issues. How will you denote the end of a base 96 sequence? If every printable character can be part of the ciphertext, what can you use as an end marker or a padding character? -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
