Paul Moore:
> Finding out whether users/projects typically write such a helper
> function for themselves would be a better way of getting this
> information. Personally, I suspect they don't, but facts beat
> speculation.

Well, I did. It was necessary to get 2to3 conversion to work(*). I turned every occurence of
    E.encode('base-64')
and
   E.decode('base-64')
into helper function calls that for Python 3 did:
   b64encode(E).decode('ascii')
and
   b64decode(E.encode('ascii'))
(Or something similar, I don't have the code in front of me.)

Leaving out .decode/.encode('ascii') would simply not have worked. That would just be asking for TypeError's.

regards, Anders

(*) Yes, I use 2to3, believe it or not. Maintaining Python 2 code and doing an automated conversion to Python 3 as needed.

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