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Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 18:38:09 +0100
From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/8] Add QBuffer
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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Instead of encoding just as a string, it would be a good idea to encode 
> it as something like:
> 
> {'__class__': 'base64', 'data': ...}

Is there a benefit to the class indirection, over simply a keyword?:

{'__base64__': ...}

__class__ seems to suggest much more than it's being used for here.

-- Jamie