From 40b35aa5cc6f59721735a95a778362bc8bbe98dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Andrew M. Kuchling" Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 19:11:07 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Mention base64 module; rewrite last sentence to be more positive --- Doc/lib/libbinascii.tex | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/lib/libbinascii.tex b/Doc/lib/libbinascii.tex index b244b105718..84d29c613de 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: