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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libbinascii.tex b/Doc/lib/libbinascii.tex index b244b10..84d29c6 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libbinascii.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libbinascii.tex @@ -9,10 +9,11 @@ The \module{binascii} module contains a number of methods to convert between binary and various \ASCII-encoded binary representations. Normally, you will not use these functions directly -but use wrapper modules like \refmodule{uu}\refstmodindex{uu} or -\refmodule{binhex}\refstmodindex{binhex} instead, this module solely -exists because bit-manipulation of large amounts of data is slow in -Python. +but use wrapper modules like \refmodule{uu}\refstmodindex{uu}, +\refmodule{base64}\refstmodindex{base64}, or +\refmodule{binhex}\refstmodindex{binhex} instead. The \module{binascii} module +contains low-level functions written in C for greater speed +that are used by the higher-level modules. The \module{binascii} module defines the following functions: |