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| I want to embed a small amount of binary data into my python program. what's the best way to do this? |
| froomzer, Binary data? |
| Something that can be expressed as ascii |
| froomzer, why embed, why not use a separate file? |
| froomzer, Probably to create a .bin file and then read from it I meant to ask what does the binary data consist of? |
| It would be best if it was embeded because I only want to distribute only one file |
| froomzer, you could store it as base64 encoded, or as digits, and convert it inside the file |
| Base64 sounds good |
| There's base64 support in the standard library notw afaik |
| Do I just use a unicode string and encode/decode it with this? |
| froomzer, you don't need unicode, it's 7-bit |
| But unicode strings have these nice encode/decode functions |
| froomzer, they won't deal with base64 |
| Or is there another method for encoding to base64 |
| froomzer, base64.decodestring, base64.encodestring |
| Ok, I'll play a bit with the different possibilities and see which one works best. thanks |
| froomzer, bindata = base64.decodestring("""...""") |
| Ok, thats fine. thank you! |
