Working with bytes.

[Bernhard Herzog]

Piet van Oostrum <piet at cs.uu.nl> writes:

> Yes, you could in principle use 94 characters. There is a scheme called
> btoa that encodes 4 bytes into 5 ASCII characters by using BASE85, but I
> have never seen a Python implementation of it. It shouldn't be difficult,
> however. 

Is that the same as PDF/PostScript Ascii85?  If so, there's an
implementation somewhere in reportlab, IIRC.

   Bernhard

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