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How do you decode Base64 data in Python?

import base64 coded_string = ”’Q5YACgA…”’ base64.b64decode(coded_string) worked for me. At the risk of pasting an offensively-long result, I got: >>> base64.b64decode(coded_string) 2: ‘C\x96\x00\n\x00\x00\x00\x00C\x96\x00\x1b\x00\x00\x00\x00C\x96\x00-\x00\x00\x00\x00C\x96\x00?\x00\x00\x00\x00C\x96\x07M\x00\x00\x00\x00C\x96\x07_\x00\x00\x00\x00C\x96\x07p\x00\x00\x00\x00C\x96\x07\x82\x00\x00\x00\x00C\x96\x07\x94\x00\x00\x00\x00C\x96\x07\xa6Cq\xf0\x7fC\x96\x07\xb8DJ\x81\xc7C\x96\x07\xcaD\xa5\x9dtC\x96\x07\xdcD\xb6\x97\x11C\x96\x07\xeeD\x8b\x8flC\x96\x07\xffD\x03\xd4\xaaC\x96\x08\x11B\x05&\xdcC\x96\x08#\x00\x00\x00\x00C\x96\x085C\x0c\xc9\xb7C\x96\x08GCy\xc0\xebC\x96\x08YC\x81\xa4xC\x96\x08kC\x0f@\x9bC\x96\x08}\x00\x00\x00\x00C\x96\x08\x8e\x00\x00\x00\x00C\x96\x08\xa0\x00\x00\x00\x00C\x96\x08\xb2\x00\x00\x00\x00C\x96\x86\xf9\x00\x00\x00\x00C\x96\x87\x0b\x00\x00\x00\x00C\x96\x87\x1d\x00\x00\x00\x00C\x96\x87/\x00\x00\x00\x00C\x96\x87AA\x0b\xe7PC\x96\x87SCI\xf5gC\x96\x87eC\xd4J\xeaC\x96\x87wD\r\x17EC\x96\x87\x89D\x00F6C\x96\x87\x9bC\x9cg\xdeC\x96\x87\xadB\xd56\x0cC\x96\x87\xbf\x00\x00\x00\x00C\x96\x87\xd1\x00\x00\x00\x00C\x96\x87\xe3\x00\x00\x00\x00C\x96\x87\xf5\x00\x00\x00\x00C\x9cY}\x00\x00\x00\x00C\x9cY\x90\x00\x00\x00\x00C\x9cY\xa4\x00\x00\x00\x00C\x9cY\xb7\x00\x00\x00\x00C\x9cY\xcbC\x1f\xbd\xa3C\x9cY\xdeCCz{C\x9cY\xf1CD\x02\xa7C\x9cZ\x05C+\x9d\x97C\x9cZ\x18C\x03R\xe3C\x9cZ,\x00\x00\x00\x00C\x9cZ? [stuff omitted as it exceeded SO’s body length limits] \xbb\x00\x00\x00\x00D\xc5!7\x00\x00\x00\x00D\xc5!\xb2\x00\x00\x00\x00D\xc7\x14x\x00\x00\x00\x00D\xc7\x14\xf6\x00\x00\x00\x00D\xc7\x15t\x00\x00\x00\x00D\xc7\x15\xf2\x00\x00\x00\x00D\xc7\x16pC5\x9f\xf9D\xc7\x16\xeeC[\xb5\xf5D\xc7\x17lCG\x1b;D\xc7\x17\xeaB\xe3\x0b\xa6D\xc7\x18h\x00\x00\x00\x00D\xc7\x18\xe6\x00\x00\x00\x00D\xc7\x19d\x00\x00\x00\x00D\xc7\x19\xe2\x00\x00\x00\x00D\xc7\xfe\xb4\x00\x00\x00\x00D\xc7\xff3\x00\x00\x00\x00D\xc7\xff\xb2\x00\x00\x00\x00D\xc8\x001\x00\x00\x00\x00’

Code for decoding/encoding a modified base64 URL (in ASP.NET Framework)

Also check class HttpServerUtility with UrlTokenEncode and UrlTokenDecode methods that is handling URL safe Base64 encoding and decoding. Note 1: The result is not a valid Base64 string. Some unsafe characters for URL are replaced. Note 2: The result differs from the base64url algorithm in RFC4648, it replaces the ‘=’ padding with ‘0’, ‘1’ or … Read more

How do I decode a string with escaped unicode?

Edit (2017-10-12): @MechaLynx and @Kevin-Weber note that unescape() is deprecated from non-browser environments and does not exist in TypeScript. decodeURIComponent is a drop-in replacement. For broader compatibility, use the below instead: decodeURIComponent(JSON.parse(‘”http\\u00253A\\u00252F\\u00252Fexample.com”‘)); > ‘http://example.com’ Original answer: unescape(JSON.parse(‘”http\\u00253A\\u00252F\\u00252Fexample.com”‘)); > ‘http://example.com’ You can offload all the work to JSON.parse

UnicodeEncodeError: ‘charmap’ codec can’t encode – character maps to , print function [duplicate]

I see three solutions to this: Change the output encoding, so it will always output UTF-8. See e.g. Setting the correct encoding when piping stdout in Python, but I could not get these example to work. Following example code makes the output aware of your target charset. # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- import sys print … Read more

Encoding as Base64 in Java

You need to change the import of your class: import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64; And then change your class to use the Base64 class. Here’s some example code: byte[] encodedBytes = Base64.encodeBase64(“Test”.getBytes()); System.out.println(“encodedBytes ” + new String(encodedBytes)); byte[] decodedBytes = Base64.decodeBase64(encodedBytes); System.out.println(“decodedBytes ” + new String(decodedBytes)); Then read why you shouldn’t use sun.* packages. Update (2016-12-16) You can … Read more

UnicodeDecodeError: ‘charmap’ codec can’t decode byte X in position Y: character maps to

The file in question is not using the CP1252 encoding. It’s using another encoding. Which one you have to figure out yourself. Common ones are Latin-1 and UTF-8. Since 0x90 doesn’t actually mean anything in Latin-1, UTF-8 (where 0x90 is a continuation byte) is more likely. You specify the encoding when you open the file: … Read more