what does XDR stand for? and what is it?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Shaun <shogan at iel.ie> wrote:
> im here looking and trying to figure out the xdrlib module,
> it says here - http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-xdrlib.html
> "The xdrlib module defines two classes,
> one for packing variables into XDR representation,
> and another for unpacking from XDR representation.
> There are also two exception classes."
>
> my question is what is XDR? what does it stand for?

look at that page again:

    "The xdrlib module supports the External Data Representation
    Standard as described in RFC 1014, written by Sun Microsystems,
    Inc. June 987. It supports most of the data types described in
    the RFC."

the xdrlib page also includes a pointer to the RFC 1014 specification.

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