Is it possible to post binaries to usenet with Python?

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Published on 2010-06-07T05:28:09Z Indexed on 2010/06/07 5:32 UTC
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Hey All,

I'm trying to use the nntplib that comes with python to make some posts to usenet. However I can't figure out how to post binary files using the .post method.

I can post plain text files just fine, but not binary files. any ideas?

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