[Python-Dev] Why can't I encode/decode base64 without importing a module? (original) (raw)

Calvin Spealman ironfroggy at gmail.com
Mon Apr 22 13:39:25 CEST 2013

if two lines is cumbersome, you're in for a cumbersome life a programmer. On Apr 22, 2013 7:31 AM, "Ram Rachum" <ram at rachum.com> wrote:

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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