[Python-checkins] bpo-27846: Delete incorrect note in base64 docs (GH-5666)
Berker Peksag
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Tue Feb 13 19:48:03 EST 2018
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/2e8d9003ed7a97955c36fa19a9ce7c43d9ec83e1
commit: 2e8d9003ed7a97955c36fa19a9ce7c43d9ec83e1
branch: 3.7
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: Berker Peksag <berker.peksag at gmail.com>
date: 2018-02-14T03:48:00+03:00
summary:
bpo-27846: Delete incorrect note in base64 docs (GH-5666)
This note incorrectly stated that "Base64 has an expansion factor of 6
to 4" (it is actually 4 to 3). It was decided to remove the note.
(cherry picked from commit 88c38a4049ded0e1f197fec3e76be7c0c0e83d7a)
Co-authored-by: Zackery Spytz <zspytz at gmail.com>
files:
M Doc/library/base64.rst
diff --git a/Doc/library/base64.rst b/Doc/library/base64.rst
index ceecf17cba23..ad9f5f58bee2 100644
--- a/Doc/library/base64.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/base64.rst
@@ -218,14 +218,6 @@ The modern interface provides:
.. versionadded:: 3.4
-.. note::
- Both Base85 and Ascii85 have an expansion factor of 5 to 4 (5 Base85 or
- Ascii85 characters can encode 4 binary bytes), while the better-known
- Base64 has an expansion factor of 6 to 4. They are therefore more
- efficient when space expensive. They differ by details such as the
- character map used for encoding.
-
-
The legacy interface:
.. function:: decode(input, output)
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