On 6/19/2009 1:18 PM Mitko Haralanov said...
I have a question about finding out whether a string contains binary data?
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The only other check that I can think of is to check every character in the read-in string against string.printable but that will take a long time.
Well, probably not really. Consider that CPU speeds dramatically outperform network transport speeds such that by the time your local performance becomes an issue, you've got a _huge_ xmlrpc argument to pass over the wire...
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