[issue20837] Ambiguity words in base64 documentation

Martin Panter added the comment: I think it is too late for 3.3 now, but I did port the relevant bit to 2.7. -- nosy: +martin.panter stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed versions: +Python 2.7 -Python 3.3 ___ Python tracker

[issue20837] Ambiguity words in base64 documentation

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset e8cbebb273c6 by Martin Panter in branch '2.7': Issue #20837: Base-64 alphabet clarification from revision 1853679c6f71 https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/e8cbebb273c6 -- ___ Python tracker

[issue20837] Ambiguity words in base64 documentation

Changes by Ezio Melotti : -- stage: -> patch review type: -> enhancement ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Un

[issue20837] Ambiguity words in base64 documentation

R. David Murray added the comment: I had to edit that paragraph for another issue, so I fixed the wording along the lines Éric suggested while I was at it. Hmm. But it still needs to be fixed in 3.3 (and 2.7, I presume) :( -- resolution: -> fixed

[issue20837] Ambiguity words in base64 documentation

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 1853679c6f71 by R David Murray in branch 'default': whatsnew: base65 encodings. (#17618) http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/1853679c6f71 -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python tracker

[issue20837] Ambiguity words in base64 documentation

Éric Araujo added the comment: Additional edit to make the patch crystal-clear: “using all three alphabets (normal, URL and Filesystem safe alphabet).” → “using all three alphabets defined in the RFC (normal, URL-safe and filesystem-safe)” -- nosy: +eric.araujo ___

[issue20837] Ambiguity words in base64 documentation

INADA Naoki added the comment: Here's patch. -- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file34272/base64.patch ___ Python tracker ___

[issue20837] Ambiguity words in base64 documentation

R. David Murray added the comment: There are three different 'base64 alphabets' defined in the standard. The support for using them is via altchars. 'URL safe' and 'filename safe' are the two alternate alphabets defined in the standard, which you can see if you follow the link to the RFC. A

[issue20837] Ambiguity words in base64 documentation

New submission from INADA Naoki: http://docs.python.org/3/library/base64.html > The modern interface supports encoding and decoding ASCII byte string objects > using all three alphabets. What "all three alphabets" means? I think it is about *altchars*. But the sentence is too ambiguous to tran