Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/8] Add QBuffer

[Jamie Lokier]

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