yenc encoding?

[Fernando Pérez]

Gerson Kurz wrote:

> Does someone work on a yenc-encoder/decoder for python? Both "base64"
> and "binascii" are there in the python standard library, after all.
> 
> Just wondering: Should an implementation for a new encoding follow the
> base64-model (that is, have four funcs encode, encodes, decode,
> decodes) or the binascii-modell (a2b_yenc,b2a_yenc) or something
> totally different altogether?

You might want to take a look at

http://www.exit109.com/~jeremy/news/yenc.html

The guy seems to make very valid points.

Cheers,

f