Re: [Tutor] Help understanding base64 decoding

2018-09-13 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 13Sep2018 08:23, Ryan Smith wrote: [...] I'm still getting familiar with all of the different encodings at play. For example the way I currently understand things is that python supports unicode which ultimately defaults to being encoded in UTF-8. Hence I'm guessing is the reason for convert

Re: [Tutor] Help understanding base64 decoding

2018-09-13 Thread Ryan Smith
Hi Peter, Thank you for the explanation! I have been banging my head around this for almost two days. I'm still getting familiar with all of the different encodings at play. For example the way I currently understand things is that python supports unicode which ultimately defaults to being encoded

Re: [Tutor] Help understanding base64 decoding

2018-09-13 Thread Peter Otten
Ryan Smith wrote: > 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