codecraig> how would I decode it? Assuming you have Python at the other end and you get a Binary object instead of a string, access its data attribute. OTOH, xmlrpclib may automatically decode the wrapper object for you.
In any case, I have two further recommendations: * Check the xmlrpclib docs. * Experiment. Electrons are hardy fellows and hardly ever break at the energy levels present in modern computers. Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list