:mod:`binhex` --- Encode and decode binhex4 files
This module encodes and decodes files in binhex4 format, a format allowing representation of Macintosh files in ASCII. On the Macintosh, both forks of a file and the finder information are encoded (or decoded), on other platforms only the data fork is handled.
Note
In Python 3.x, special Macintosh support has been removed.
The :mod:`binhex` module defines the following functions:
The following exception is also defined:
Notes
There is an alternative, more powerful interface to the coder and decoder, see the source for details.
If you code or decode textfiles on non-Macintosh platforms they will still use the old Macintosh newline convention (carriage-return as end of line).
As of this writing, :func:`hexbin` appears to not work in all cases.