On 2007-04-01, Ene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Apr 1, 11:44 am, John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Michael B. Trausch wrote:
>> > In short: How do I create a string that contains raw binary content
>> > without Python caring? Is that possible?
>>
>> Given where we're now at with strings in Python, Python should
>> really have a "byte" type and a way to deal with arrays of
>> bytes, independent of the string operators.
I agree. It would be very nice to have a built-in data-type
that is an efficient implementation of a list/array of bytes.
When manipulating binary data, it really makes it unreadable
when it's full of chr() and ord() calls that are only there
because when you index into a string you get a string of length
1 and not a byte.
>> Efficient handling of lists of bytes would do it.
>>
>> John Nagle
>
> Python has a module base64 that allows you to handle binary
> data as a string.
Huh? How does the base64 module address the problem? It still
relies on the "string" type as an immutable list of bytes.
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