From: Andrew M. Kuchling Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 19:11:07 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Mention base64 module; rewrite last sentence to be more positive X-Git-Tag: v2.5b3~127 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=40b35aa5cc6f59721735a95a778362bc8bbe98dd;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git Mention base64 module; rewrite last sentence to be more positive --- diff --git a/Doc/lib/libbinascii.tex b/Doc/lib/libbinascii.tex index b244b105718f..84d29c613dee 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: