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This method decodes the string using the codec registered for encoding. encoding defaults to the default string encoding.
str.decode(encoding='UTF-8',errors='strict') |
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().
It returns an decoded version of the string.
#!/usr/bin/python str = "this is string example....wow!!!"; str = str.encode('base64','strict'); print "Encoded String: " + str; print "Decoded String: " + str.decode('base64','strict') |
This will produce following result:
Encoded String: dGhpcyBpcyBzdHJpbmcgZXhhbXBsZS4uLi53b3chISE= Decoded String: this is string example....wow!!! |
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