New submission from Mahmoud Abdelkader <mabdelka...@gmail.com>:
Given a string, encoding it with .encode('base64') is not the same as using
base64's b64encode function. I think this is very unclear and unintuitive.
Here's some example code to demonstrate the problem. Before I attempt to submit
a patch, is this done for legacy reasons? Are there any reasons to use one over
the other?
import hmac
import hashlib
import base64
signature = hmac.new('secret', 'url', hashlib.sha512).digest()
assert signature.encode('base64') == base64.b64encode(signature)
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 126696
nosy: mahmoudimus
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: "string".encode('base64') is not the same as base64.b64encode("string")
versions: Python 2.5, Python 2.6, Python 2.7
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