Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> added the comment: > I am confused by MvL’s reply. From the first paragraph documentation > for binascii: “Normally, you will not use these functions directly > but use wrapper modules like uu, base64, or binhex instead. The > binascii module contains low-level functions written in C for greater > speed that are used by the higher-level modules.” > > Is the doc not accurate?
It is correct. So use base64.b16encode/b16decode then. It's just that I personally prefer hexlify/unhexlify, because I can memorize the function name better. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7475> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
