def convertFromBase64 (stringToBeDecoded):
import base64
decodedstring=str.decode('base64',"stringToBeDecoded")
print(decodedstring)
return
convertFromBase64(dGhpcyBpcyBzdHJpbmcgZXhhbXBsZS4uLi53b3chISE=)
I am tying to take a base64 encoded string and convert it back to the original string but I cant figure out quite what is wrong
I am getting this error
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Python32/junk", line 6, in
convertFromBase64(("dGhpcyBpcyBzdHJpbmcgZXhhbXBsZS4uLi53b3chISE="))
File "C:/Python32/junk", line 3, in convertFromBase64
decodedstring=str.decode('base64',"stringToBeDecoded")
AttributeError: type object 'str' has no attribute 'decode'
解决方案
A string is already 'decoded', thus the str class has no 'decode' function.Thus:
AttributeError: type object 'str' has no attribute 'decode'
If you want to decode a byte array and turn it into a string call:
the_thing.decode(encoding)
If you want to encode a string (turn it into a byte array) call:
the_string.encode(encoding)
In terms of the base 64 stuff:
Using 'base64' as the value for encoding above yields the error:
LookupError: unknown encoding: base64
Open a console and type in the following:
import base64
help(base64)
You will see that base64 has two very handy functions, namely b64decode and b64encode. b64 decode returns a byte array and b64encode requires a bytes array.
To convert a string into it's base64 representation you first need to convert it to bytes. I like utf-8 but use whatever encoding you need...
import base64
def stringToBase64(s):
return base64.b64encode(s.encode('utf-8'))
def base64ToString(b):
return base64.b64decode(b).decode('utf-8')