Data Encoding

Problem

  • Data is managed in a variety of formats.
  • Especially in Internet applications and network protocols

Examples

  • Base64 encoding
  • Quoted-printable encoding
  • Uuencoding
  • MIME
  • HTML
  • XML
  • Binhex
  • Binary data structures
  • XDR

Fortunately, Python has a variety of data processing modules

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