What is base64.b16decode() in Python?

The base64.b16decode() method decodes a bytes-like object using Base16 alphabets into plain text.

b16decode() method

Syntax

We can import b16decode from base64 using the following code:

from base64 import b16decode

The declaration of the base64.b16decode() method is as follows:

base64.b16decode(b_string)

The method returns the decoded byte-string.

Code

The code below demonstrates the use of base64.b16decode():

from base64 import b16encode
from base64 import b16decode
b_str = b'Python is awesome!'
print('Data type of \'s\': ', type(b_str))
enc_str = b16encode(b_str) # encode
dec_str = b16decode(enc_str) # decode
print('Data type of decoded \'dec_str\': ', type(dec_str))
print('Decoded string: ', dec_str)

Explanation

In line 4, a byte string is initialized and stored in b_str. The next line prints the type of b_str. In line 7, the string is encoded, then in line 8, the string is decoded, and finally line 9 prints the type of the encoded string. Lastly, in line 11, the encoded string is printed.

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