[Python-Dev] Why can't I encode/decode base64 without importing a module? (original) (raw)
Victor Stinner victor.stinner at gmail.com
Mon Apr 22 13:38:47 CEST 2013
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Hi,
Your question is discussed since 4 years in the following issue: http://bugs.python.org/issue7475
The last proposition is to add transform() and untransform() methods to bytes and str types. But nobody implemented the idea. If I remember correctly, the missing point is how to define which types are supported by a codec (ex: only bytes for bz2 codec, bytes and str for rot13).
Victor
2013/4/22 Ram Rachum <ram at rachum.com>:
Hi everyone,
Take a look at this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16122435/python-3-how-do-i-use-bytes-to-bytes-and-string-to-string-encodings/16122472?noredirect=1#comment2303478716122472 Is there really no way to use base64 that's as short as: b'whatever'.encode('base64') Because doing this: import codecs codecs.decode(b"whatever", "base64codec") Or this: import base64 encoded = base64.b64encode(b'whatever') Is cumbersome! Why can't I do something like b'whatever'.encode('base64')? Or maybe using a different method than
encode?Thanks, Ram.
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