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Mon Apr 22 13:39:25 CEST 2013 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-April/125422.html

if two lines is cumbersome, you're in for a cumbersome life a programmer.
On Apr 22, 2013 7:31 AM, "Ram Rachum" <ram at rachum.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Take a look at this question:
>
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16122435/python-3-how-do-i-use-bytes-to-bytes-and-string-to-string-encodings/16122472?noredirect=1#comment23034787_16122472
>
> Is there really no way to use base64 that's as short as:
>
>     b'whatever'.encode('base64')
>
> Because doing this:
>
>     import codecs
>     codecs.decode(b"whatever", "base64_codec")
>
> Or this:
>
>     import base64
>     encoded = base64.b64encode(b'whatever')
>
> Is cumbersome!
>
> Why can't I do something like b'whatever'.encode('base64')? Or maybe using
> a different method than `encode`?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Ram.
>
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