[Tutor] Re: Catching warnings?

[Liam Clarke]

It certainly does Danny, thanks very much.

And thanks to everyone else also.

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 22:59:30 -0700 (PDT), Danny Yoo


<dyoo at hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
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>
> On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Liam Clarke wrote:
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> > I'm only using rotor because I couldn't get the a2b_uu functions to work : )
> > I just need to render something into not-plaintext. It's not hugely
> > important, all the email passwords are defaults anyway....
>
> Hi Liam,
>
> Hmmm... Ok, if this isn't too serious, you can always use ROT13.  *grin*
> It's built in:
>
> ###
> >>> 'helloworld'.encode('rot13')
> 'uryybjbeyq'
> ###
>
> There's a corresponding 'decode()' string method to go the other way
> around.  This 'codecs' system that Python has is pretty rich: rot13 is one
> of the silly codecs, but there are quite a few others:
>
>     http://www.python.org/doc/lib/node127.html
>
> including one for uu encoding.
>
> If you really need strong encryption, then something like amkCrypto might
> fit the bill:
>
>     http://www.amk.ca/python/code/crypto.html
>
> I hope this helps!
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>