robert wrote: > want to encode/decode an arbitrary short 8-bit string as save filename. > is there a good already builtin encoding to do this (without too much > inflation) ? or re.sub expression?
Yuu could use the base64-encoder. Disadvantage is clearly that you can't easily read your original text. Alternatively, three is that encoding that is used by e.g. emails if you have an umlaut in a name. I _think_ it is called puny-code, but I'm not sure how and if you can use that from within python - google yourself :) diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
