[Python-Dev] methods on the bytes object

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Mon May 1 23:55:01 CEST 2006


Martin v. Löwis wrote:


> Ok. I think I would use base64, of possibly compressed content. It's
> more compact than your representation, as it only uses 1.3 characters
> per byte, instead of the up-to-four bytes that the img2py uses.

only if you're shipping your code as PY files.  in PYC format (ZIP, PY2EXE,
etc), the img2py format is more efficient.

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