[Image-SIG] Converting a binary file to ascii

Ashish Sethi ashishbitsgoa at gmail.com
Thu Sep 4 06:32:27 CEST 2008


> Please define more precisely what you mean with "equivalent ascii
> string". Strictly speaking, b2a_uu produces an equivalent string in the
> sense that running a2b_uu gives you the original string back, but this
> is obviously not what you want. In other words, there is 1:1 mapping
> between arbitrary binary data and their "UU" representation.
>
> If you want to get the "P3" format: Use something like
>
> intvals = [ord(i) for i in d]

Thanks all of you. Your suggestions solved my problem.


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