G
Guy Middleton
I wanted to decode some MIME base64 text, and had no program that does this,
so I thought it must be easy to do in Python.
I have been using Python, on and off, for a long time, so I used a file idiom
I remembered from years ago:
for line in sys.stdin:
sys.stdout.write(base64.decodestring(line))
This works fine, but then I realised that the language has evolved since then,
and I could make this more obviously a transformation:
base64.decode(sys.stdin, sys.stdout)
I like this version much better.
so I thought it must be easy to do in Python.
I have been using Python, on and off, for a long time, so I used a file idiom
I remembered from years ago:
for line in sys.stdin:
sys.stdout.write(base64.decodestring(line))
This works fine, but then I realised that the language has evolved since then,
and I could make this more obviously a transformation:
base64.decode(sys.stdin, sys.stdout)
I like this version much better.