base32-crockford 0.1.0

A Python implementation of Douglas Crockford's base32 encoding

A Python module implementing the alternate base32 encoding as described by Douglas Crockford at: http://www.crockford.com/wrmg/base32.html.

According to his description, the encoding is designed to:

• Be human and machine readable

• Be compact

• Be error resistant

• Be pronounceable

It uses a symbol set of 10 digits and 22 letters, excluding I, L O and U. When decoding, the letters ‘i’ and ‘l’ are converted to ‘1’ and ‘o’ is converted to ‘0’. Decoding is not case sensitive and encoding uses only upper-case characters.

Hyphens may be present anywhere in a symbol string to improve readability and are ignored when decoding.

A check symbol may be appended to a symbol string for error detection when decoding the string.