On 2018-01-16 19:52, Larry Martell wrote:
On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 2:35 PM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote:
On Tuesday 16 January 2018 14:19:38 Larry Martell wrote:
On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 12:00 PM, Larry Martell
<larry.mart...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Looking for 2.7 docs on read.encode - googling did not turn up
> anything.
>
> Specifically, looking for the supported options for base64, and how
> to specify them, e.g. Base64.NO_WRAP
So I just realized that encode() is not a method of read() it's a
string method. But I still have the same question - can I pass in any
flags?
My issue is that I am base64 encoding PNG images on linux and it's
putting a LF at the end of each line. If I do the same on Windows it's
putting CR/LF. I want the files to be encoded with no platform
dependences. Googling I found mention of Base64.NO_WRAP and I want to
pass that into encode() - can I do that?
Di you not have the manpages installed?
In my copy of the manpage:
base64 [OPTION]... [FILE]
where option is:
-w, --wrap=COLS
wrap encoded lines after COLS character (default 76). Use
0 to disable line wrapping.
Seems pretty simple.
But how do I use that in read().encode('base64')?
Use the base64 module instead, which is also how you would do it in
Python 3.
If you're getting CR/LF on Windows, that's because you're opening the
file in text mode. In both Python 2 and Python 3 the base64 string will
be a bytestring, which you'd write out to a file opened in binary mode.
That's an extra bit of future-proofing! :-)
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