I don't know exactly. Isn't there a pure python implementation for quoted printable in the python sources (I think in quopri.py or something). I would just use this code.

I would except that testing revealed the two have surprisingly different behaviour for all sorts of inputs, and I thought the goal (at the moment, at least) is to have the pypy stdlib give exactly the same results (at least on non-architecture-dependent stuff.)

Another thing: I don't have much time at the moment to finish my binascii code. Perhaps it's best if I pass my code to you, so you can have a look at it and perhaps merge it with yours and check it in? What do you think?

Sure, that's fine. Thesis work is always less interesting than anything else. :) BTW, all, a few weeks ago I gave a talk at a conference on high-performance computation in astrophysics, and got to plug the pypy project as an example of future coolness. In discussions afterwards it was widely agreed that if a dynamic high-level language could get within 25% of C without much boilerplate the productivity gains would be well worth the runtime cost, even at the extreme end of HPC. Doug -- Queen's University Astronomy Research Group Planetary Dynamics Division "We create worlds."

I don't know exactly. Isn't there a pure python implementation for quoted printable in the python sources (I think in quopri.py or something). I would just use this code.

I would except that testing revealed the two have surprisingly different behaviour for all sorts of inputs, and I thought the goal (at the moment, at least) is to have the pypy stdlib give exactly the same results (at least on non-architecture-dependent stuff.)

Another thing: I don't have much time at the moment to finish my binascii code. Perhaps it's best if I pass my code to you, so you can have a look at it and perhaps merge it with yours and check it in? What do you think?

Sure, that's fine. Thesis work is always less interesting than anything else. :) BTW, all, a few weeks ago I gave a talk at a conference on high-performance computation in astrophysics, and got to plug the pypy project as an example of future coolness. In discussions afterwards it was widely agreed that if a dynamic high-level language could get within 25% of C without much boilerplate the productivity gains would be well worth the runtime cost, even at the extreme end of HPC. Doug -- Queen's University Astronomy Research Group Planetary Dynamics Division "We create worlds."