Hello All, I am currently working on a small utility that finds any base64 encoded strings in files and decodes them. I am having issue understanding how the Base64 module actually works. The regular expression that I am using correctly matches on the encoded strings. I simply want to be able to convert the match of the encoded ascii string to it's decoded ascii equivalent. For example the base64 encoded ascii string 'UwB5AHMAdABlAG0ALgBkAGwAbAA=' will decode to 'System.dll' if I use an online base64 decoder. However I get a completely different output when trying to codify this using python 3.6.5:
>>>import base64 >>>import binascii >>>test_str = 'UwB5AHMAdABlAG0ALgBkAGwAbAA=' >>> base64.b64decode(test_str) b'S\x00y\x00s\x00t\x00e\x00m\x00.\x00d\x00l\x00l\x00' >>>temp = base64.b64decode(test_str) >>>binascii.b2a_base64(temp) b'UwB5AHMAdABlAG0ALgBkAGwAbAA=\n' I understand that when decoding and encoding you have to use bytes objects but what I don't understand is why I can't get the proper conversion of the original ascii string. Can someone please point me in the right direction? Thank you, Ryan _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor