Working with bytes.

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> Bernhard Herzog <bh at intevation.de> (BH) wrote:

BH> 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. 

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

They are slightly different AFAIK. Postscript uses '~' and btoa uses 'x'
as terminating character. For the OP's use it doesn't matter of course.
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