Alex Martelli wrote: > binascii.b2a_uu only works for up to 45 bytes at once; but if you were > feeding it more than 45 bytes, this should raise a binascii.Error > itself. > Definitely not, given the above limit. But I still don't quite > understand the exact mechanics of the error you're getting. > > > Alex
here is an example. def doSomething(): data = aFile.readlines() result = [] for x in data: result.append(encode(x)) return result def printResult(encodedData): """encodedData is a list of strings which are uu encoded""" print decode(encodedData) encode(data): """data is a string""" if len(data) > 45: tmp = [] for c in data: tmp.append(binascii.b2a_uu(c)) return ''.join(tmp) else: return binascii.b2a_uu(data) decode(data): """data is a list of strings""" result = [] for val in data if len(val) > 45: response = [] for x in val: response.append(binascii.a2b_uu(x)) result.append(response) else: result.append(binascii.a2b_uu(val)) return ''.join(result) ...i would use those functions like data = doSomething() printResult(data) Now i get this... " response.append(binascii.a2b_uu(x)) java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsExcep tion: String index out of range: 1" So the error is in the decode method .....this is in Jython...perhaps Jython doesn't handle binascii.a2b_uu ? or perhaps since the actual data is being encoded in python, then read in and decoded in my jython script..that could be the problem? thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list