Python/ciphers/base16.py
Rohan R Bharadwaj bdd135d403
Split base85.py into functions, Add doctests (#5746)
* Update base16.py

* Rename base64_encoding.py to base64.py

* Split into functions, Add doctests

* Update base16.py
2021-11-02 11:10:25 +01:00

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import base64
def base16_encode(inp: str) -> bytes:
"""
Encodes a given utf-8 string into base-16.
>>> base16_encode('Hello World!')
b'48656C6C6F20576F726C6421'
>>> base16_encode('HELLO WORLD!')
b'48454C4C4F20574F524C4421'
>>> base16_encode('')
b''
"""
# encode the input into a bytes-like object and then encode b16encode that
return base64.b16encode(inp.encode("utf-8"))
def base16_decode(b16encoded: bytes) -> str:
"""
Decodes from base-16 to a utf-8 string.
>>> base16_decode(b'48656C6C6F20576F726C6421')
'Hello World!'
>>> base16_decode(b'48454C4C4F20574F524C4421')
'HELLO WORLD!'
>>> base16_decode(b'')
''
"""
# b16decode the input into bytes and decode that into a human readable string
return base64.b16decode(b16encoded).decode("utf-8")
if __name__ == "__main__":
import doctest
doctest.testmod()