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pypa / get-pip

Helper scripts to install pip, in a Python installation that doesn't have it.
https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/
MIT License
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[question] Why not keep the raw binary data within get-pip.py? #216

Open alsldlflglhljlk opened 2 months ago

alsldlflglhljlk commented 2 months ago

Right now, the zip file containing pip is encoded in base85. This is probably a dumb question, but why not just keep the raw data of the zip file without encoding it in base85? This would make it much smaller and faster because base85 increases the size of the file by 33%.