[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-547037 ] base64 newlines - documentation (again)

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Bugs item #547037, was opened at 2002-04-22 06:41
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>Category: Documentation
>Group: Python 2.2.1 candidate
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Paul Rouse (p_rouse)
>Assigned to: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger)
Summary: base64 newlines - documentation (again)

Initial Comment:
The documentation fix for bug 463330, describing the
newline added by base64.encode and base64.encodestring
appears to be incorrect!

The "courtesy newline" is appended to the result, not
the input (at line 466 of binsacii.c), so it is *not*
true that

base64.encodestring('hello') ==
base64.encodestring('hello\n')

In fact:

   base64.encodestring('hello') == 'aGVsbG8=\n'
   base64.encodestring('hello\n') == 'aGVsbG8K\n'

This applies to documentation for 2.2 and 2.2.1, and
actual behaviour has been checked in 2.2 

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