I have a question about finding out whether a string contains binary data? In my application, I am reading from a file which could contain binary data. After I have read the data, I transfer it using xmlrpclib.
However, xmlrpclib has trouble unpacking XML which contains binary data and my application throws an exception. The solution to this problem is to use base64 encoding of the data but I don't know how to check whether the encoding will be needed? If I read in a string containing some binary data from the file, the type of that string is <type 'str'> which is not different from any other string, so I can't use that as a check. The only other check that I can think of is to check every character in the read-in string against string.printable but that will take a long time. Can anyone suggest a better way to handle the check? Thank you in advance. -- Mitko Haralanov -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
