On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Verde Denim <tdl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > All > > I'm a bit new to py coding and need to setup some code to encode/decode > base > > 128. > > Anyone here have some info they can point me to do get this done? I've > been > > looking around on the web for a few days and can't seem to lay my hands > on > > anything definitive. > > Thanks in advance for your help. > > First, why do you want to do this? I ask because there is probably a > better way to achieve what you want. I'm not aware of a standard for > "base 128", and it does not sound to me like something that would be > very useful. > > Base 64 is commonly used as an encoding system because it fits inside > the 94 printable characters of ASCII and is easily implemented. It is > also provided by the Python standard library. Why not use this > instead? > > Cheers, > Ian > Ian Thanks for the reply. The fact is that I don't _want_ to, but need to as a part of a work project. If I had a choice, base 64 would be the way to go since (as you point out), it's already in the standard library. If I could take the encoded form and translate it to base 64 and then use the standard library, that would work as well, but I'm not sure that there's a one-to-one correlation there. - Jack
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