[Python-Dev] Why can't I encode/decode base64 without importing a module? (original) (raw)
Oleg Broytman phd at phdru.name
Mon Apr 22 16:25:50 CEST 2013
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On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 09:50:14AM -0400, Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda at gmail.com> wrote:
unicodeescape doesn't make any sense anymore -- python code is text, not bytes, so why does 'abc'.encode('unicodeescape') return bytes?
AFAIU the situation is simple: unicode.encode(encoding) returns bytes, bytes.decode(encoding) returns unicode, and neither unicode.decode() nor bytes.encode() exist. Transformations like base64 and bz2 are nor encoding/decoding -- they are bytes/bytes or unicode/unicode transformations.
Oleg.
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