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')
