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@@ -6,9 +6,12 @@ uses a profile/subset of ASN.1. This library is not designed to be a |
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general ASN.1 parser, but designed to be super simple to use, and |
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secure. |
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This library support Python 3. The git repo has a branch, python2 |
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that maintains the latest support for Python 2. |
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The following python types are supported: bool, int (and long), bytes, |
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null (as None), float, unicode, datetime, list, set and dict. If you |
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need to serialize other types/instances, a coerce function maybe |
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null (as None), float, unicode (aka str), datetime, list, set and dict. |
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If you need to serialize other types/instances, a coerce function maybe |
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provided which is required to return the above string and an object |
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implementing the correct methods. See the ASN1Coder's __init__ |
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method's doc string for more information. |
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@@ -16,7 +19,7 @@ method's doc string for more information. |
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ASN.1 has a number of different types of strings, but only UTF8String |
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is used by this library. In order to support dict types, it uses the |
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Private Constructed type 0. The contents are pairs of key value objects. |
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bytes (aka str in Python 2) is mapped to the octet string type. The |
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minimal encoding is used so that the same data will be encoded as the |
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same string, similar to the ASN.1 DER encoding. The class ASN1Coder |
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is available if the dict support is required to not be present. |
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bytes is mapped to the octet string type. The minimal encoding is used |
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so that the same data will be encoded as the same string, similar to the |
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ASN.1 DER encoding. The class ASN1Coder is available if the dict support |
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is required to not be present. |
