base conversion

[Joel Lucsy]

Yes, but standard compression routines like zlib or lzo don't work well on
short sequences. I'd rather treat the string as a decimal rather than a
string and simply (well, it seems simple) convert the base. Perhaps a
different method would work, but my brain just doesn't want to descramble
how to do it.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Allan M. Wind" <allanwind at mediaone.net>
To: "Joel Lucsy" <jjlucsy at concentric.net>
Cc: <python-list at python.org>
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: base conversion


> On 2000-10-06 14:26:18, Joel Lucsy wrote:
>
> > Forgot to mention that I'd like the output to be considerably shorter
than
> > the original. I have already tried the base64 module.
>
> Perhaps, you want to compress the number rather than changing base?
>
>
> /Allan
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