How can I encode something in base32 preferably very fast?

[Elmo Mäntynen]

On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 21:15:36 +0300, Elmo Mäntynen wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 16:51:05 +0200, Johannes Findeisen wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 17:23 +0300, Elmo Mäntynen wrote:
>>> I want to encode a plaindigest or a hexdigest in base 32. Any hints?
>> 
>> Search Google for "python base32" isn't as hard...
>> 
>> First result are the original python lib documentation:
>> http://docs.python.org/lib/module-base64.html
>> 
>> I think  you need to convert to a String before encoding... 
>> 
>> Have fun,
> 
> I thought I had looked at that particular module:). Thanks for pointing it
> out.
> 
> Elmo

I'm using python2.3(because of my distro of choise, debian) and did a
help(base64) and of course didn't see anything about base32:). Now i have
good reason to change to 2.4:) Thanks

Elmo