Re: Character set woes with binary data

2007-04-01 Thread Lenard Lindstrom
John Nagle 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 byt

Re: Character set woes with binary data

2007-04-01 Thread Grant Edwards
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

Re: Character set woes with binary data

2007-04-01 Thread Ene
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"

Re: Character set woes with binary data

2007-04-01 Thread John Nagle
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 stri

Re: Character set woes with binary data

2007-04-01 Thread Terry Reedy
"Michael B. Trausch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | The protocol calls for binary data to be transmitted, and I cannot seem | to be able to do it, because I get this error: | UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: | ordinal not in r

Re: Character set woes with binary data

2007-04-01 Thread Paul Boddie
Michael B. Trausch wrote: > > I never said it did. It just happens to be the context with which I am > working. I said I wanted to concatenate materials without regard for > the character set. I am mixing binary data with ASCII and Unicode, for > sure, but I should be able to do this. The probl

Re: Character set woes with binary data

2007-04-01 Thread Michael B. Trausch
On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 06:09 -0300, Gabriel Genellina wrote: > > When putting the MIME segments (listed line-by-line in a Python list) > > together to transmit them. The files are typically JPG or some other > > binary format, and as best as I understand the protocol, the binary data > > needs to

Re: Character set woes with binary data

2007-04-01 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Sun, 01 Apr 2007 05:21:25 -0300, Michael B. Trausch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > I am attempting to piece together a Python client for Fotobilder, the > picture management server on Livejournal. > > The protocol calls for binary data to be transmitted, and I cannot seem > to be able to do