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

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Tue Apr 23 17:15:23 CEST 2013


On Apr 22, 2013, at 06:22 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

You can ask the same question about all the other codecs. (And that question has indeed been asked in the past.) Except for rot13. :-)

The fact that you can do this instead is a bit odd. ;)

from codecs import getencoder encoder = getencoder('rot-13') r13 = encoder('hello world')[0]

-Barry



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