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[Python-Dev] PEP 465: A dedicated infix operator for matrix multiplication

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at gmail.com
Wed Apr 9 01:28:34 CEST 2014 
2014-04-09 1:13 GMT+02:00 Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>:
> Victor Stinner wrote:
>>
>> I started to implement the RFC 1924 to have a full support.
>>
>> 3 days later, when my code was working, I saw the date of the RFC...
>
>
> Do you still have the code? It needn't go to waste -- this
> would make a fine addition to Python's easter egg basket!

Oh, apparently you are not aware. It's no more an april fool, Python
3.4 has support for base85!
https://docs.python.org/3.4/library/base64.html#base64.b85encode

Victor

PS: No, I didn't kept my base85 codec for IPv6 written in C.
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