Martijn Pieters wrote: > > Oops. You took out the strip. But IIRC, base64 does a strip as well. So it does! >>> from base64 import * >>> s = encodestring('foo') >>> decodestring(s) 'foo' >>> decodestring(s+' ') 'foo' >>> decodestring(' '+s) 'foo' -- Steve Alexander Software Engineer Cat-Box limited http://www.cat-box.net