Re: [Python-Dev] Why can't I encode/decode base64 without importing a module?

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

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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