Message185835
Base85 encoding (see e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascii85 ) allows a tighter encoding than Base64: it has a 5/4 expansion ratio, rather than 4/3.
It is used in Mercurial, git, and there's another variant that's used by Adobe in the PDF format.
It would be nice to have a Base85 implementation in either the binascii or base64 modules.
(unfortunately the Mercurial implementation is GPL'ed, although if we want to copy it we might simply ask them for a relicensing) |
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2013-04-02 13:23:35 | pitrou | set | recipients:
+ pitrou, christian.heimes |
2013-04-02 13:23:35 | pitrou | set | messageid: <1364909015.82.0.0760723886219.issue17618@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
2013-04-02 13:23:35 | pitrou | link | issue17618 messages |
2013-04-02 13:23:35 | pitrou | create | |
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