[Python-3000] base64.{decode,encode}string

[Guido van Rossum]

2007/10/26, Bill Janssen <janssen at parc.com>:
> I think encodestring() should return a string, not bytes, and
> decodestring() should take either a string, or bytes containing an
> ASCII-encoded string.  Otherwise, every place they'll ever be
> used has to wrap an additional unicode/encode step around their
> use.

I'm okay with being flexible on input. I think there ought to be
separate functions returning bytes and str.

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