[Tutor] Encoding

[Dave Angel]

Giorgio wrote:
> 2010/3/7 Dave Angel <davea at ieee.org>
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>> Those two lines don't make any sense by themselves.  Show us some context,
>> and we can more sensibly comment on them.  And try not to use names that
>> hide built-in keywords, or Python stdlib names.
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> Hi Dave,
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> I'm considering Amazon SimpleDB as an alternative to PGSQL, but i need to
> store blobs.
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> Amazon's FAQs says that:
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> "Q: What kind of data can I store?
> You can store any UTF-8 string data in Amazon SimpleDB. Please refer
> to the Amazon
> Web Services Customer Agreement <http://aws.amazon.com/agreement> for
> details."
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> This is the problem. Any idea?
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>> DaveA
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> Giorgio
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You still didn't provide the full context.  Are you trying to do store 
binary data, or not?

Assuming you are, you could do the UUENCODE suggestion I made.  Or use 
base64:

base64.encodestring(/s/)   wlll turn binary data into (larger) binary 
data, also considered a string.  The latter is ASCII, so it's irrelevant 
whether it's considered utf-8 or otherwise.  You store the resulting 
string in your database, and use  base64.decodestring(s) to reconstruct 
your original.

There's 50 other ways, some more efficient, but this may be the simplest.

DaveA