encoding/base64

Index

Overview

base64 defines base64 encoding & decoding functions, often used to represent binary as text.

Functions

def decode

decode(src,encoding="standard") string

parse base64 input, giving back the plain string representation

Arguments
nametypedescription
srcstringsource string of base64-encoded text
encodingstringoptional. string to set decoding dialect. allowed values are: standard,standard_raw,url,url_raw

def encode

encode(src,encoding="standard") string

return the base64 encoding of src

Arguments
nametypedescription
srcstringsource string to encode to base64
encodingstringoptional. string to set encoding dialect. allowed values are: standard,standard_raw,url,url_raw