[issue31116] base85 z85 variant encoding

Change by Matan Perelman : -- keywords: +patch nosy: +matan1008 nosy_count: 3.0 -> 4.0 pull_requests: +28796 stage: -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/30598 ___ Python tracker

[issue31116] base85 z85 variant encoding

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[issue31116] base85 z85 variant encoding

Derek Wilson added the comment: z85 avoids all of: ` \ " ' _ , ; Backtick and semicolon increase the number of places that z85 can be used without issue over b85. All of these might not be as big an issue in python as in other tools/languages but interoperability would still be improved

[issue31116] base85 z85 variant encoding

Dobatymo added the comment: base64.b85encode does not use ", ' or \ as well. That's the _b85alphabet _b85alphabet = (b"0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" b"abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz!#$%&()*+-;<=>?@^_`{|}~") -- nosy: +Dobatymo

[issue31116] base85 z85 variant encoding

New submission from Derek Wilson: Issue #17618 introduced base85 options into the base64 module including b85 and a85/adobe variants. There has since been introduced a variant that is easier to work with specifically as it avoids " ' \ characters which avoids quoting/escaping issues when