[Python-Dev] Why can't I encode/decode base64 without importing a module?
M.-A. Lemburg
mal at egenix.com
Tue Apr 23 17:22:35 CEST 2013
On 23.04.2013 17:15, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> 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]
Just as reminder: we have the general purpose
encode()/decode() functions in the codecs module:
import codecs
r13 = codecs.encode('hello world', 'rot-13')
These interface directly to the codec interfaces, without
enforcing type restrictions. The codec defines the supported
input and output types.
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