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| author | Zackery Spytz <zspytz@gmail.com> | 2018-02-14 00:08:54 (GMT) |
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| committer | Berker Peksag <berker.peksag@gmail.com> | 2018-02-14 00:08:54 (GMT) |
| commit | 88c38a4049ded0e1f197fec3e76be7c0c0e83d7a (patch) | |
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| parent | f0bc645dfede8118c84844bad319cd952c4d1905 (diff) | |
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bpo-27846: Delete incorrect note in base64 docs (GH-5666)
This note incorrectly stated that "Base64 has an expansion factor of 6
to 4" (it is actually 4 to 3). It was decided to remove the note.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/base64.rst b/Doc/library/base64.rst index ceecf17..ad9f5f5 100644 --- a/Doc/library/base64.rst +++ b/Doc/library/base64.rst @@ -218,14 +218,6 @@ The modern interface provides: .. versionadded:: 3.4 -.. note:: - Both Base85 and Ascii85 have an expansion factor of 5 to 4 (5 Base85 or - Ascii85 characters can encode 4 binary bytes), while the better-known - Base64 has an expansion factor of 6 to 4. They are therefore more - efficient when space expensive. They differ by details such as the - character map used for encoding. - - The legacy interface: .. function:: decode(input, output) |