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Re: base64.b64encode(data)

From Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: base64.b64encode(data)
Date 2016-06-12 22:26 +0300
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Marcin Rak <mrak@sightlineinnovation.com>:

> b64_encoded_data = base64.b64encode(data)
>
> my b64_encoded_data variables holds, would you believe it, a string as
> bytes!.

It doesn't much matter one way or another. The logic is that whenever
you encode objects, you typically want the output as bytes. However,
it's trivial to decode the bytes into a string if that's what you need.


Marko

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base64.b64encode(data) Marcin Rak <mrak@sightlineinnovation.com> - 2016-06-12 11:56 -0700
  Re: base64.b64encode(data) Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-06-12 22:26 +0300
  Re: base64.b64encode(data) Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-06-13 12:22 +1000
    Re: base64.b64encode(data) Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-06-12 23:20 -0400
      Re: base64.b64encode(data) Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-06-13 15:16 +1000
        Re: base64.b64encode(data) Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-06-13 01:33 -0400
          Re: base64.b64encode(data) Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-06-13 09:45 +0300
          Re: base64.b64encode(data) Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-06-13 20:35 +1000
            Re: base64.b64encode(data) Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-06-13 09:36 -0400
              Re: base64.b64encode(data) Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-06-22 01:56 +1000
            Re: base64.b64encode(data) Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-06-13 20:20 -0400
        Re: base64.b64encode(data) Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2016-06-13 09:15 -0600
          Re: base64.b64encode(data) Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2016-06-14 11:04 +1200
        Re: base64.b64encode(data) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-06-14 03:07 +1000
          Re: base64.b64encode(data) Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2016-06-14 11:12 +1200
            Re: base64.b64encode(data) Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-06-13 21:19 -0400

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