[Distutils] add hash algorithm agility to RECORD

[Paul Moore]

On 7 September 2012 18:58, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 6:59 AM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It's shorter, and it's used extensively in the digital signature format I'm
>> using.
>
> On the other hand, why encode it at all? CSV supports shoving the raw
> bytes in there, no problem. ;-)

CSV is text format. Feed it binary at your own peril :-)

I've just spent most of the day fighting a (non-Python) system that is
going barmy because of line ending funnies in data within CSV fields.
That was bad enough - I have no intention of ever having to deal with
a CSV file with binary data in it...

Paul.