Issue 17714: str.encode('base64') add trailing new line character. It is not documented. (original) (raw)

This issue has been migrated to GitHub: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/61914

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Created on 2013-04-13 15:39 by alex.75, last changed 2022-04-11 14:57 by admin. This issue is now closed.

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msg186734 - (view)	Author: Alessandro Piccione (alex.75)	Date: 2013-04-13 15:39
str.encode() with 'base64' as argument add a trailing new line character to the returned string. This is the difference from base64.b64encode(str) (that is used internally). This is not documented in str.encode() http://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html?highlight=encode#str.encode Instead it is perfectly documented for base64.encodestring() http://docs.python.org/2/library/base64.html#base64.encodestring
msg188091 - (view)	Author: Dmi Baranov (dmi.baranov) *	Date: 2013-04-29 20:00
Added a patch
msg188632 - (view)	Author: Roundup Robot (python-dev)	Date: 2013-05-07 08:14
New changeset 8b764c3521fa by Ezio Melotti in branch '2.7': #17714: document that the base64 codec adds a trailing newline. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/8b764c3521fa
msg188633 - (view)	Author: Ezio Melotti (ezio.melotti) *	Date: 2013-05-07 08:16
The str.encode() doc is the wrong place where to document this, since the '\n' is added only for the base64 codec. I added a note about this in the codecs docs[0]. [0]: http://docs.python.org/2/library/codecs.html#standard-encodings
msg188634 - (view)	Author: Roundup Robot (python-dev)	Date: 2013-05-07 08:21
New changeset cbb23e40e0d7 by Ezio Melotti in branch '3.3': #17714: document that the base64 codec adds a trailing newline. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/cbb23e40e0d7 New changeset b3e1be1493a5 by Ezio Melotti in branch 'default': #17714: merge with 3.3. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/b3e1be1493a5