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Python String encode() Method
Description:
This method returns an encoded version of the string. Default encoding is the current default string encoding. errors may be given to set a different error handling scheme.
Syntax:
str.encode(encoding='UTF-8',errors='strict')
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Parameters:
Here is the detail of parameters:
encoding: is the encodings to be used. For a list of all encoding schemes please visit: Standard Encodings.
errors : may be given to set a different error handling scheme. The default for errors is 'strict', meaning that encoding errors raise a UnicodeError. Other possible values are 'ignore', 'replace', 'xmlcharrefreplace', 'backslashreplace' and any other name registered via codecs.register_error().
Return Value:
It returns an encoded version of the string.
Example:
#!/usr/bin/python
str = "this is string example....wow!!!";
print "Encoded String: " + str.encode('base64','strict')
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This will produce following result:
Encoded String: dGhpcyBpcyBzdHJpbmcgZXhhbXBsZS4uLi53b3chISE=
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