Python/ciphers/base16.py
Tan Yong He 9bf7b183e7
Improve Base16 Codebase (#3534)
* Add doctest and remove input() usage

* Apply suggestions from code review

Co-authored-by: Dhruv Manilawala <dhruvmanila@gmail.com>
2020-11-23 13:01:43 +05:30

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import base64
def encode_to_b16(inp: str) -> bytes:
"""
Encodes a given utf-8 string into base-16.
>>> encode_to_b16('Hello World!')
b'48656C6C6F20576F726C6421'
>>> encode_to_b16('HELLO WORLD!')
b'48454C4C4F20574F524C4421'
>>> encode_to_b16('')
b''
"""
encoded = inp.encode("utf-8") # encoded the input (we need a bytes like object)
b16encoded = base64.b16encode(encoded) # b16encoded the encoded string
return b16encoded
if __name__ == "__main__":
import doctest
doctest.testmod()